Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
New plasma process converts wet coffee grounds into fuel in 90 seconds
Scientists have demonstrated a new plasma-based process that converts wet coffee waste into high-performance biochar without any pre-drying…
Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage | Cop31
Electrifying the world – with electric vehicles, electric heating and cooling, and modernised heavy industry – could be…
Fiji Blocks Controversial Australian-Backed Waste Incinerator Project
Fiji has rejected Australia’s proposal to ship waste to the South Pacific country to burn and produce energy,…
Wind turbines in Norway were spinning so fast they became invisible to eagles until engineers painted one blade black and began saving dozens of birds
Wind energy is reaching new heights across the world. Millions of homes are now powered by wind. Yet,…
It’s 50 years since the 1976 drought: how would the UK cope with its next major one?
It’s 50 years since the intense heat of the 1976 drought hit the UK. The country’s worst drought…
New wind turbine can be built anywhere without cement, heavy machinery
French designer Fabien Brun is challenging the traditional view of wind energy as a massive, multi-million-euro industrial endeavor.…
The Irish Times view on the National Economic Dialogue: a useful talking shop – The Irish Times
The National Economic Dialogue, part of the build up to the budget, is ostensibly a forum to sit…
Israeli study unlocks 4,000 years of climate change and human adaptation
Cylinders of ancient mud drilled from the Carmel Coast in northern Israel have revealed how ancient human societies…
‘It’s Russian roulette’: alarm as Europe backs critical minerals mines in water-stressed regions | Mining
The European Commission plans to rewrite the EU’s flagship water protection law to speed up the development of…
Powerful seismic waves from Japan’s 2011 earthquake struck Earth’s core and bounced back up, moving island eastward
In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos…
Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise
Noble, T. L. et al. The sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a changing climate: past, present,…