How nuclear technology can help fight seafood fraud
2025-09-28
Across the globe, consumers and small-scale fishers alike are facing a growing challenge: seafood fraud.Continue Reading
EU Climate Commissioner says the world is moving on climate goals without the U.S.
2025-09-27
More than a hundred countries have committed to fresh plans to curb pollution – with one big holdout: The U.S. NPR’s Andrew Limbong speaks with the EU Commissioner for Climate, Wopke Hoekstra, about how global leaders are moving forward on climate goals with the U.S. on the sidelines.Continue Reading
Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?
2025-09-27
A San Rafael startup proposed a sci-fi solution to raise areas facing the twin threats of land subsidence and sea level rise. Some officials and experts are skeptical. By Jennifer Ugwa In the Northern California Bay Area, the weather has never pulled its punches. Storms pound the shorelines, king tidesContinue Reading
‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress
2025-09-27
Young people are at the heart of the world’s most urgent challenges, and on Friday, their role in shaping solutions took centre stage at the UN General Assembly. World leaders spoke of the remarkable promise held by today’s generation, even as they acknowledged the persistent barriers millions of children andContinue Reading
Foraging revival: How wild food enthusiasts are reconnecting with nature
2025-09-27
Humans first began foraging for food some 12,000 years ago, long before they developed agricultural tools that overshadowed the ancient act that helped sustain early humans.Continue Reading
Washington moves to conserve its state forests
2025-09-27
The proposal would protect 77,000 acres of ‘structurally complex’ forests. The post Washington moves to conserve its state forests appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
A Turning Point for the Ocean: What the High Seas Treaty Means
2025-09-27
With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean. By Teresa Tomassoni In a milestone for ocean governance and conservation, the High Seas Treaty has cleared the final hurdleContinue Reading
Toxic waste could become the next clean energy breakthrough
2025-09-27
Bio-tar, once seen as a toxic waste, can be transformed into bio-carbon with applications in clean energy and environmental protection. This innovation could reduce emissions, create profits, and solve a major bioenergy industry problem., Read MoreContinue Reading
Three Charts To Set the Record Straight On Climate Change
2025-09-27
In his United Nations address, Traitor 47 lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the world while dismissing the dangers of climate change. Somini Sengupta explains the facts on climate change with three charts.Continue Reading
I Witnessed A.I. Collide with Climate
2025-09-27
This town’s minerals make A.I. possible. Then came Hurricane Helene. Kate Crawford is a professor at the University of Southern California, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research and the author of “Atlas of A.I.”Continue Reading
The Passaic River Stars in a Short Drama About Its Life as a Superfund Site
2025-09-26
In New Jersey, first-time playwright Cynthia Mellon spotlights the decades-long fight to clean one of the nation’s most polluted rivers. By Anna Mattson It is a perfect day in Newark, New Jersey. The sky is a vibrant blue, with few clouds, over Riverfront Park. Willow trees drape down and driftContinue Reading
A pink bumpy snailfish was just discovered miles beneath the ocean
2025-09-26
Scientists have identified three new species of deep-sea snailfish, including the strikingly pink “bumpy snailfish,” thanks to MBARI’s advanced technology and global collaborations. Found thousands of meters below the surface off California, these elusive fish demonstrate remarkable adaptations for life under crushing pressure and darkness., Read MoreContinue Reading
Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?
2025-09-26
Attorneys for the town of Carrboro and Duke Energy sparred in court for hours over this question before a judge, who asked them for more information. Carrboro says it sustained $20 million in property damage from Tropical Depression Chantal in July. By Lisa Sorg RALEIGH, N.C.—The state’s first climate deceptionContinue Reading