Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres
There are moments in history when a crisis long treated as distant reveals itself to be intimate, immediate…
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ | Health
Countries are being “held hostage” by their reliance on fossil fuels, a former UN climate chief has warned,…
Severe tropical cyclones Maila and Vaianu put Solomon Islands, PNG and Fiji on alert
A red alert is in place for Western, Choiseul and Isabel provinces, and an orange alert for Central,…
The United Kingdom is seeing record-breaking wind gusts and turning them into energy, but its wind power plants now risk bringing the country to a standstill
The United Kingdom recently set a new record in wind power generation. As the country has become a…
Earth’s most powerful ocean current didn’t form the way we thought
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current carries more than 100 times the total flow of all the world’s rivers combined.…
Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that
Charity shops are generally seen as a responsible way to get rid of unwanted belongings. In theory, donating…
how the planet’s climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement
A new Earthset image has been captured by the crew of Artemis II, 58 years since the iconic…
A New Political Fault Line Opens Over Canada’s Energy Future
Canada is often torn in two different directions when it comes to energy policy, with former Prime Minister…
NASA’s Artemis II, endangered species and oil, low western U.S. snowpack
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our…
Oil approaches a scary new deadline: Nonlinear pricing
As US President Donald Trump’s latest deadline for Iran to strike a deal approaches, the oil market is…
Possible super El Niño could bring extreme heat, droughts, strong floods
The chances for a planet-warming super El Niño this year are rising, according to an updated model forecast…
We knew snow doesn’t stop solar panels, but now winter storms are destroying them in a completely different way
Solar power is the king of the renewable energy subsector. Some have turned to solar panel arrays to…