Scientists discover a new way to identify where major earthquakes could strike
THE TAKEAWAY A team of scientists discovered a new way to identify where some of Earth’s biggest earthquakes…
Peter’s farm is on ‘flood country’. As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge | Climate crisis
When grazier Peter Lake moved to the Clarence Valley in the New South Wales northern rivers region in…
Ugandan communities planted 4,053 trees beside one of Africa’s great rainforests; now the new forest is rebuilding a damaged wildlife buffer |
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Image Credit: Ron Van Oers/Wikipedia Communities living beside Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park have planted…
Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750
Jacobson, M. Z. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature…
‘Totally reliant on Mother Nature’: UK drought raises water security fears | Business and Economy News
London, United Kingdom – In a wheat field near High Wycombe in the rolling English countryside, Alex Nelms…
Auckland has an overlooked traffic pollution problem – and it’s not from exhausts
Cleaner engine standards and a gradual uptake of electric vehicles have been credited with helping improve Auckland’s air…
Rising sea levels need to be ‘accounted for’ in plans for Cork’s future, new UCC study says
Water levels at Horgan’s Quay in Cork city, where several major residential developments are being built, could be…
Wind turbines are built for gusts near 120 miles an hour, so the 10 steel towers a radar truck watched fold across three Iowa wind farms were carrying almost three times that
A wind turbine tower is a tube, not a post. It carries the machine on top by keeping…
In 2023, Australia paved two suburban roads with 135,000 recycled coffee cups and the equivalent of 1.2 million glass bottles, cutting the asphalt’s carbon footprint by 24%
What happens to a takeaway coffee cup after the last sip? In most cases, it ends up in…
‘Limit overshoot, peak, decline’: A new global goal for climate change? | Climate Crisis
The signing of the Paris Agreement by 200 countries in 2015 was a rare moment of global unity,…
No Rivers, Little Rain: How Saudi Arabia Supplies Freshwater To 37 Million People
Imagine a country where vast stretches of land are covered by scorching sand, more than 95% of the…
Two more people arrested over ‘mountain of illegal waste’ dumped in Oxfordshire | Waste
Two men have been arrested after fly-tippers dumped a “mountain of illegal waste”, stacked 10 metres high, in…