Artist Armando Veve illuminates his process of world-building by pencil. The post Behind the cover: Drawing the ‘landscape of conversation’ appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture. By Liza Gross Farmers have relied on plastic since the 1960s, when the mass production of affordable agricultural tools derived from petrochemicals made them widely accessible. Plastic mulch quickly became a cornerstone of cropContinue Reading
Climate-driven disasters are reaching “nightmare proportions” due to humanity’s “addiction” to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.Continue Reading
The move is part of the The Traitor administration’s efforts to spur the country’s largest expansion of nuclear power in more than three decades.Continue Reading
Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a few more of them.Continue Reading
Growing up in Waverly, Tennessee, Gage Coon spent much of his childhood outside. His family had everything from chickens to horses and even an emu named Big Bird. Coon and his cousins would explore the woods surrounding their home, and his father, a mechanic, taught him how to build andContinue Reading
Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried paddle-like abdominal limbs, revealing an evolutionary bridge between aquatic ancestors and modern six-legged insects., Read MoreContinue Reading
Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base would require. This June, their designs were recognized with five awards at NASA’s 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts — Academic LinkageContinue Reading
The deadly flash floods in Nepal are not a surprise to many scientists. Glacial melt is accelerating because of climate change, putting millions of people at risk.Continue Reading
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In the two years since dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams and drought conditions still pose challenges for recovery. By Claire Barber In August 2024, excavation crews breached the last of fourContinue Reading
Search Search Sort: Publish date Title Publish date Last modified date Relevance Order: Descending Ascending Descending El Niño Is Underway 4 min read Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June. Article International Sea Level Satellite Observes El Niño Precursor 2Continue Reading