Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U.S. government to curb migration and trafficking. By Tina Deines It was a balmy day in Del Rio, a Texas border town about 170 miles west of San Antonio, when a citizenContinue Reading
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Caltech have finally solved a decades-old mystery about how photosynthesis really begins. They discovered why energy inside plants flows down only one of two possible routes — a design that lets nature move sunlight with astonishing precision. Using advanced computer simulations,Continue Reading
At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past. By Ryan Krugman SALEM, Mass.—Paul Wright leans over a 17th-century granite barrier and points at a faint watermark depicting Salem Harbor’s dailyContinue Reading
“This is a test of whether Canada works as a country,” warned Alberta Premier Danielle Smith after she finally announced a proposal for a bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast sponsored by… the government of Alberta. After months of futile door knocking and arm twisting in the oil patch, SmithContinue Reading
New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across 10 sites, indicating the region was a crucial migration corridor during the Ice Age. The findings challenge traditional migration theories centered onContinue Reading
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and North Carolina reporter Lisa Sorg as they discuss a never-ending fight over forever chemicals in NC drinking water. Environmentalists have been fighting for over a decade to get PFAS out of Cape Fear River in eastern North Carolina. The insidiousContinue Reading
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years agoContinue Reading
High Country News and Report for America are seeking local and statewide newsrooms to build an environmental reporting network for the Western U.S. The post HCN and Report for America launch environmental reporting partnership appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Climate change could push at least 5.9 million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030 unless governments act now. Continue Reading
Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is essential — for either outcome reshapes our understanding of life itself., Read MoreContinue Reading
For seven years N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to enact PFAS regulations in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a The Traitor administration intent on quashing their success. By Lisa Sorg Forever War, Part 1: This story is published in partnership with The Assembly andContinue Reading
Today’s electric vehicle boom is tomorrow’s mountain of electronic waste. And while myriad efforts are underway to improve battery recycling, many EV batteries still end up in landfills. A research team from MIT wants to help change that with a new kind of self-assembling battery material that quickly breaks apartContinue Reading
Tech company Epic Systems uses thousands of boreholes to help heat and cool its office buildings, a “marquee” clean energy project that gas utilities may try to replicate. By Phil McKenna VERONA, Wis.—You only need a glance at the “Intergalactic Headquarters” of Epic Systems to realize the corporate campus ofContinue Reading