El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
She said, especially in the Pacific, “it can get dire very quickly.” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres described…
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean has puzzled scientists
In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something…
New Solar Method Turns Ocean Into Drinking Water, While Extracting Valuable Lithium Without Waste
Vials of (left to right) seawater, salt water, nickel sulfate, copper chloride wastewater, and desalinated water with recovered…
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive? | Birds
At the entrance to Wyperfeld national park, in north-west Victoria, more than a dozen pink cockatoos are sprinkled…
Rising Energy Bills Are Fueling a Global Home Battery Boom
Consumers are battling higher energy bills worldwide due to rising inflation and greater price volatility of oil and…
America’s top 10 dirtiest cities revealed
Here’s the dirt on America. A survey conducted last year revealed the US cities with the worst pollution,…
A single plastic water bottle takes about 450 years to decompose — meaning every bottle produced since the 1970s is still essentially intact somewhere on Earth, slowly breaking down into particles now found in Arctic ice, Pyrenees rainfall, and the sediments of the Mariana Trench
The plastic water bottle is one of the more recent inventions in the history of human packaging. The…
Call for legislated renewable energy target as community batteries announced for Perth, Bunbury
A climate advocate has called for a legislated target for renewable energy uptake as construction begins on 18…
The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy
Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits. These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t…
Freed: Quebec may have silly language laws, but I can do better
Do Not Read This Column in English (unless you are a “historic anglophone”). First, convert to French with…
Activities galore through Canada Day
PECelebrates, a celebration of community, cultures and Canada, will take place June 14 – July 1 across Prince…
El Niño is officially here, and this one could be a doozy
Prepare for intense heat, drought and some flooding — it’s officially El Niño season, the National Weather Service…