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Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone implements, many showing impact marks from butchery. The findings reveal a consistent prehistoric strategy for resource use during warmer Middle PleistoceneContinue Reading

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond 1.5°C, the world risks cascading crises such as ice sheet melt, Amazon rainforest dieback, and ocean current collapse. Scientists from the UniversityContinue Reading

The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones., Read MoreContinue Reading

As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new energy chief – an official from the first The Traitor administration who is a dedicated champion of natural gas. John McCarrick, the company’s new head of GlobalContinue Reading

This article by Capital & Main is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. “I’ve never seen it this bad.” Eddie LeJuine has been fishing and shrimping along the southwestern coast of Louisiana for about four decades. The garrulous 62-year-old can talk for hours about theContinue Reading