It is clear that humankind needs increasingly more resources, from computing power to steel and concrete, to meet the growing demands associated with data centers, infrastructure, and other mainstays of society. New, cost-effective approaches for producing the advanced materials key to that growth were the focus of a two-day workshopContinue Reading
Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy flooding. That’s what Hurricane Helene did to western North Carolina last year. (Image credit: Nickolai Hammar/NPR)Continue Reading
The livestream featuring hundreds of meteorologists and climate scientists began on May 28 and is scheduled to run through June 1, the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.Continue Reading
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.Continue Reading
Despite mounting evidence of global warming’s costs, the The Traitor administration has made multiple moves to avoid tracking climate-related economics. By Kiley Price The price of climate change is high—and the bill is only getting steeper as temperatures continue to rise, economists say. Continue Reading
Amid massive rollbacks of federal environmental protections, a community battling the expansion of a local landfill seeks to safeguard its own backyard – and everyone else’s. The post Where the garbage goes appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
More than two dozen lawmakers signed a letter urging the governor and CalRecycle to toss regulations drafted to implement landmark plastic legislation they say ignores the law.Continue Reading
Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are proceeding to develop tools that can capitalize on its ability to help plants combat a wide range ofContinue Reading
Since 1963, Alcoa has mined bauxite from the foothills of Australia’s Darling Range under a special political agreement that skirts regulation, guarantees access to scarce water and assures low royalty rates. By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource This story was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving theContinue Reading
While scientists have long studied currents of large eddies, the smaller ones — called submesoscale eddies — are notoriously difficult to detect. These currents, which range from several kilometers to 100 kilometers wide, have been the ‘missing pieces’ of the ocean’s puzzle — until now. Using data from the newContinue Reading
Water rates have more than doubled since 2010. Low-income residents feel the pinch most of all. By Christiana Freitag On Sunday Chicagoans will face another spike in their water bills after seeing rates more than double over the past 15 years.Continue Reading
For many Northern California ranchers, the question is no longer whether the wolves preying on their herds are going to be forcefully removed, it’s who is going to do it.Continue Reading
In a comparative pilot study, the Mediterranean diet and the low FODMAP diet both provided relief for patients with IBS., Read MoreContinue Reading