New York’s utilities keep investing in natural gas, but this conflicts with the state’s climate goals. Experts worry that ratepayers will eventually struggle to keep up with rising costs. By Lauren Dalban As temperatures dropped below freezing in New York City last month, boilers in the basements of city buildingsContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back. (Image credit: Hart Van Denburg)Continue Reading
Cleaner wrasse have revealed a remarkable new side of fish intelligence. Marked with fake parasites, they used mirrors to inspect and remove the spots—far faster than seen in earlier tests. Even more striking, some fish dropped shrimp in front of the mirror to watch how its reflection moved, a formContinue Reading
Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can’t put in your blue bin and find a home for them. But are they doing more harm than good?Continue Reading
The leaders of the so-called separatist movement seem careful to assure their supporters that leaving Canada does not mean being absorbed by the increasingly hostile and unhinged government south of the border. The Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) website states , “The notion that we seek to become the 51st stateContinue Reading
As a data centre construction boom sweeps the UK, creating soaring electricity demands that threaten to decimate climate targets, opportunist politicians and commentators are using this new phenomenon to undermine the clean energy transition. In recent months, Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice, asContinue Reading
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a win for the climate alongside the economy. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Carney signed with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, hisContinue Reading
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With rising effects of climate change across the globe, the world has started recognising that climate change is not just an ecological collapse, but also a human rights crisis.Continue Reading
Somalia is facing a rapidly worsening drought emergency, with vast swaths of the country now parched after four failed rainy seasons, leaving millions at risk of hunger and displacement, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Martha Pskowski as they discuss plans for a border wall through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system. By Martha Pskowski Building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been a signatureContinue Reading
Deep in the Arctic north, drained peatlands—once massive carbon vaults built over thousands of years—are quietly leaking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But new field research from northern Norway suggests there’s a powerful way to slow that loss: raise the water level. In a two-year study, scientists found that restoringContinue Reading
A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections. By Katie Surma In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leadersContinue Reading