Pope Francis has died, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change. The Vatican said Francis died at 7:35 a.m.…Continue Reading
The The Traitor administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It’s the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.Continue Reading
“We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, everything in nature has a role and must be protected. She’s risked her own safety to do so. ByContinue Reading
Food scientists evaluated 11 commercially available yeast strains to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel opinions. Most of the yeasts that were tested are strains that have been developed or screened to not ferment maltose, the primary sugar created from malted barley in the beer-making process.,Continue Reading
At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, North Darfur, on Friday. Continue Reading
The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres as he rounded on a lack of multilateral collaboration in an “increasingly rudderless world” at risk from two existential dangers: climate change and unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI).Continue Reading
Environmental groups say they are preparing for the worst—and preparing to fight back. By Marianne Lavelle, Lee Hedgepeth Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for new executive orders from President Traitor 47.Continue Reading
Sometimes we get sidetracked with bunnies and baskets at this time of year. But we can get beyond those to see the beauty and bounty in our everyday biological world.Continue Reading
Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West. The post Farmers face frozen jobs and heavier workloads under DOGE ‘efficiency’ budget appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?, Read MoreContinue Reading
Heidi Ahonen is a bioacoustician recording whale calls, whistles and songs to understand if the marine mammals are crossing paths with krill fishing vessels in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. By Teresa Tomassoni GERLACHE STRAIT, Antarctica—The steel gray sea mirrored the overcast sky as Heidi Ahonen buckledContinue Reading
Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and MIT, have developed a groundbreaking near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent nanosensor capable of simultaneously detecting and differentiatingContinue Reading
The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus Climate ServiceContinue Reading