alito’s-recusal-from-climate-case:-too-little,-too-late?

The justice’s participation in the Boulder case already may have been pivotal, and his continued stock holdings—including in fossil fuels—keep an ethics cloud over the Supreme Court. By Marianne Lavelle Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the SupremeContinue Reading

160-million-year-old-proteins-show-surprising-power-against-superbugs

Scientists resurrected antimicrobial peptides from mammals that lived millions of years ago and found that some were more potent against drug-resistant bacteria than modern human versions. These evolutionary relics could provide new clues for designing treatments as antibiotic resistance becomes an increasingly serious threat., Read MoreContinue Reading

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From electric vehicle exports to massive overseas infrastructure projects, China is having a big—and contradictory—environmental impact worldwide. By Kiley Price, Dan Gearino, Nicholas Kusnetz Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, we discuss China’s burgeoning electric-vehicle exports—now entering a key marketContinue Reading

uae-influence-on-reform-should-be-investigated-–-report

The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches and campaigns on human rights, warns that the financial and political alliance between Reform and the authoritarian GulfContinue Reading

scientists-were-wrong-about-this-strange-mammal-for-nearly-40-years

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth that seemed to suggest they were. Instead, the rabbit-like animal belonged to a separate lineageContinue Reading