As the planet heats up and the push to decarbonise gathers pace, Indigenous Peoples – long among the world’s most effective environmental stewards – are once again being left behind, a new UN report reveals.Continue Reading
Fusion energy has the potential to enable the energy transition from fossil fuels, enhance domestic energy security, and power artificial intelligence. Private companies have already invested more than $8 billion to develop commercial fusion and seize the opportunities it offers. An urgent challenge, however, is the discovery and evaluation of cost-effective materialsContinue Reading
Zia Yusuf almost withdrew from frontline politics as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair emerged from obscurity to become the right-hand-man of Nigel Farage – the odds-on favourite to be the next prime minister. But, on 5 June, he announced his shock resignation followingContinue Reading
New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that. The post Can fracking wastewater be reused? appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Dozens of research and exploration vessels have set sail off the French coastal city of Nice across the Bay of Angels.Continue Reading
For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth’s ecosystems, which astonishingly stayed stable despite extinctions and upheavals. A new study reveals that only twice in 60 million years did environmental shifts dramatically reorganize these systems once with a continental land bridge, and again withContinue Reading
Researchers are increasingly relying on data from citizen scientists to analyze trends in the environment. By Kiley Price In April, more than 100,000 people from nearly 700 cities around the world set out on a mission to document as many plants and animals as they could in their urban environments. Continue Reading
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton – the ocean’s lifeblood – regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. On the French Riviera, scientists are racing to unlock their secrets before the hush of their decline echoes across the planet.Continue Reading
Low-lying islands aren’t the only ones at risk from our warming planet, as mountain communities are now finding.Continue Reading
Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded by climate-amplified storms, threatening yards, drinking water wells, rivers, creeks and wetlands. By Lisa Sorg As soon as the skies clear after a hurricane hits eastern North Carolina, Larry Baldwin climbs in the passenger seat of aContinue Reading
In a world where over a billion smartphones are produced yearly, a team of researchers is flipping the script on electronic waste. Instead of tossing out older phones, they ve demonstrated a groundbreaking approach: turning outdated smartphones into micro data centers. This low-cost innovation (just 8 euros per phone) offersContinue Reading
In places like Antarctica, small things can make a difference. Scientists are finding that penguin waste is helping form clouds, which could be offsetting the effects of climate change. (Image credit: Matthew Boyer)Continue Reading
Firefighters, heroic tenants and a change of winds spared a home on Quadro Vecchio Drive in Los Angeles during the January wildfires. What comes next for the home—and the families who love it—is complicated. Story and photos by Nina Dietz After the Fires: Second in a series about health risksContinue Reading