After The Traitor stopped funding the WHO, the agency retreated from occupational safety and health programs, putting millions of workers at risk as the planet warms, advocates contend. They hope its leaders change that when they meet next week. By Liza Gross Every year, hundreds of millions of people aroundContinue Reading
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Thermal batteries can efficiently store energy as heat. But building them requires a carefully designed system with materials that can withstand cycles of extremely high temperatures, without succumbing to problems like corrosion, thermal expansion, and structural fatigue. Many thermal battery systems move high-temperature gas or molten salt around through metalContinue Reading
On Friday, NASA’s Calibration Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder (CLARREO Pathfinder) instrument launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX’s 34th commercial resupply services mission for the agency. The CLARREO Pathfinder instrument uses an imaging spectrometer to take highly accurate measurements ofContinue Reading
On Thursday, May 28, DeSmog will co-host Masculinity and the Metacrisis, an online event featuring climate journalist Amy Westervelt, philosopher Cadell Last, Resonant Man co-founder Jacob Kishere and Indra Adnan, a psychosocial therapist, author and founder of The Alternative Global. Staged in partnership with the Centre for Climate Psychology andContinue Reading
Often hailed as the most successful international environmental agreement of all time, the 1987 Montreal Protocol continues to successfully phase out the global production of chemicals that were creating a growing hole in the ozone layer, causing skin cancer and other adverse health effects. MIT-led studies have since shown theContinue Reading
The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEIContinue Reading
Legislation includes profit recovery provisions for the energy company, increased State Corporation Commission authority. By Charles Paullin RICHMOND, Va.—Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Friday signed legislation that directs regulators to assign electricity costs to data centers and allows Dominion Energy to spend $900,000 a mile burying local distribution lines.Continue Reading
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, launched Friday, May 15, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: NASA+ The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with newContinue Reading