The destructive impacts of our fossil fuel economy are plain to see for many Canadians. With hundreds of wildfires burning across the country, forcing evacuations and polluting people’s air, this is set to be the fourth-worst fire season on record. It’s an accelerating tragedy made twice as likely due to burning fossil fuels,Continue Reading
On the shores of Nkondo, in Uganda’s Kikuube district, the day begins before sunrise. Fishers enter the lake to fish, while families around Lake Albert rely on its waters for food, income and daily survival.Continue Reading
El Niño is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa but the UN is ensuring that communities are better prepared to deal with its impact.Continue Reading
Hundreds of previously overlooked seismic events have been detected beneath Antarctica, including 245 near the marine edge of the Thwaites Glacier. Many appear to be glacial earthquakes caused when huge icebergs break off, capsize, and collide with the glacier. The surge in activity coincided with a period when Thwaites wasContinue Reading
A pilot program placing solar panels between the rails has proven successful enough that the idea is spreading to Italy, France and Korea.Continue Reading
New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they’ve been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensive. (Image credit: Alex Hager)Continue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 31 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue Reading
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Carbon capture is an important climate change mitigation strategy, but it faces technological barriers and can be energy-intensive and expensive. To help make necessary advances in this area, a team of MIT researchers, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC), are exploring energy-efficient and scalable alternatives toContinue Reading
But some experts question whether the technology, yet to be commercially deployed in the U.S., can actually break through or if it is mostly benefitting from a PR push. By Gabriel Matias Castilho Data center developers and states see small modular nuclear reactors as one of the potential solutions forContinue Reading
A pact between the state and Smithfield Foods “failed miserably.” Those who worked on the agreement explain why. By Lisa Sorg Feeding the Beast: Second in a series about lax regulation, corporate influence and the heavily polluting, yet nearly untouchable American meat industry. Thousands of dead and bloated pigs floatedContinue Reading
Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like body sizes. The tracks offer a rare glimpse of their social behavior and suggest these extinct human relatives may have lived in more complex groups thanContinue Reading
China’s Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that mudslides in Tibet caused by a glacial collapse have left three people dead and 558 missing, while police in Nepal reported at least 162 were killed. (Image credit: Niranjan Shrestha)Continue Reading