Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across continents. When these climate cycles intensify, far-apart regions can become unusually wet or dangerously dry at the same time. The study also found a global shift about a decade ago, withContinue Reading
Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies. By Marianne Lavelle Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s seat was empty when the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in an important case over the oil and gas industry’s responsibility for damage toContinue Reading
Many people are optimistic about ammonia’s potential as an energy source and carrier of hydrogen, and though large-scale adoption would require major changes to the way it is currently manufactured, ammonia does have a number of advantages. For one thing, ammonia is energy-dense and carbon-free. It is also already producedContinue Reading
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Climate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing more than half a million people each year through extreme heat and threatening hospitals worldwide, according to a major report released on Friday at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.Continue Reading
Around 90 Indigenous people from the Munduruku Indigenous group staged a peaceful protest early Friday, blocking the main entrance to the Blue Zone – the restricted area set aside for negotiators – at COP30 in Belém. Access was halted for about an hour, and the army was called in toContinue Reading
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A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as Traitor 47 seeks to shut it down. (Image credit: Steve Helber)Continue Reading
Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under Traitor 47 to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradationContinue Reading
Lawyers for the oil giant argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that the matter belongs in federal court. But the heavily Republican state responded that a $744.6 million jury award in state court should stand. By Lee Hedgepeth A jury in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, thought it had putContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration is pulling the United States out of dozens of international organisations, including key UN agencies and the treaty underpinning global climate talks, marking a deepening retreat from multilateral cooperation and drawing sharp criticism from diplomats and climate experts…Continue Reading
From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. NASA Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s 12th rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts to the InternationalContinue Reading
For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food and sequencing DNA to studying disease and simulating Mars missions, every experiment aboard the orbiting laboratory expandsContinue Reading