Polar vortex strengthens over Arctic, very strong El Niño supports mid-winter weakening signal
The Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex returned to westerly circulation over the Arctic in late August 2026 and…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…
The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late? | Environment
The nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel about them: “the great…
Mining giant Fortescue to enter team in world’s biggest electric racing series as it aims to eliminate fossil fuels
One of Australia’s biggest mining companies is taking its electric ambitions from the mine pit to pit lane…
Trump tells outdoorsmen at White House dinner he is so powerful he could ban fishing
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century | Environment News
Leopardus tilcayo is the first new living cat species named and described in more than a century. Published…
Scientists removed kangaroo rats from desert plots for 13 years, revealing how the rodents shape vegetation in the Chihuahuan Desert | World News
PC: Connor Long/Wikipedia In the Chihuahuan Desert, kangaroo rats play an important role in shaping vegetation. Between 1977…
More than 23,000 solar panels have floated on a reservoir outside London since 2016, generating enough electricity for roughly 1,800 homes while using less than 10% of the water’s surface, and research suggests the shade beneath them could also reduce evaporation
Just outside London, more than 23,000 solar panels float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir, quietly producing electricity…
Why Wave Energy Is The Final Frontier Of Renewable Energy
With the Earth’s atmosphere being effectively just a less dense fluid than the oceans around us, it’s reasonable…
From Porsche to Porsche: Next Milestone in Battery Recycling
Battery cells are the core energy storage building blocks of a battery. For the first time, the active…
New cat species identified for first time in more than a century in Bolivia | Bolivia
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking…
At an old steel site in Pittsburgh, bacteria evolved to survive – and eat – industrial pollution
Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being…