In a new paper, Harvard researchers argue for a stricter lead soil contamination standard in California. Other researchers say it has few implications for fire survivorsContinue Reading
Deep beneath the Antarctic seas lies a hidden network of 332 colossal submarine canyons, some plunging over 4,000 meters, revealed in unprecedented detail by new high-resolution mapping. These underwater valleys, shaped by glacial forces and powerful sediment flows, play a vital role in transporting nutrients, driving ocean currents, and influencingContinue Reading
What if you could set up some panels in your backyard or hang them off your balcony and start making a dent in your power bill? Organizations are trying to bring “balcony solar” to the U.S.Continue Reading
Insurers are raising rates. State officials are pressing back. And scientists say that researching this “underappreciated peril” is critical. By Susan Cosier For 40 days this summer, Illinois atmospheric scientist Victor Gensini and roughly 100 other specialists and students traveled the Great Plains chasing storms. More specifically, they investigated severeContinue Reading
Scientists have discovered a parasite that can sneak into your skin without you feeling a thing. The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, letting it invade undetected. By blocking certain nerve pathways, it avoids triggering the immune system’s alarms. ThisContinue Reading
The urban heat island effect is in full force this summer. Adaptive architecture and street trees can help. By Lauren Dalban Summer heat in New York City beats down on asphalt and tall buildings, which get hotter, scorching the locals, who can’t stop sweating. Exhaust from trucks and cars hangsContinue Reading
Researchers are working to save a tortoise that has been in the American southwest for millions of years. California has moved to put extra protections in place for the Mojave Desert tortoise.Continue Reading
As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic garbage onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office.Continue Reading
France 24 journalist Carys Garland reports from southern France, where a deadly wildfire expanded to cover an area larger than Paris, with firefighters struggling to keep the blaze from spreading. French officials said the “unprecedented” scale of the fire is undeniably linked to climate change and called for reform to the nation’s land management policies…Continue Reading
Jessika Trancik, a professor in MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, has been named the new director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC), effective July 1. The SSRC convenes and supports researchers focused on problems and solutions at the intersection of technology and its societal impacts. Trancik conductsContinue Reading
The former NAACP president had a contentious tenure at one of the nation’s oldest environmental organizations. By Lee Hedgepeth Ben Jealous’ tenure at the Sierra Club has come to an end. Continue Reading
Scientists used machine learning to reveal how glaciers erode the land at varying speeds, shaped by climate, geology, and heat. The findings help guide global planning from environmental management to nuclear waste storage., Read MoreContinue Reading
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers withdrew planning application from the site near Whitehaven in April, after the High Court found that the planning approval forContinue Reading