Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds | Air pollution
Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around…
State must hold firm on carbon tax, which helps protect the most vulnerable – The Irish Times
While most Irish politicians accept that global heating is happening and is serious, they are more hesitant about…
Damage Projections for Nankai Trough and Greater Tokyo Earthquakes
The Japanese government estimates that potential major earthquakes over the coming decades could lead to massive fatalities. Disaster…
First Grain Shipment From Canada’s Churchill Port in Six Years
The Port of Churchill, located in Manitoba and Canada’s Arctic, checked off another important first in its efforts…
Two Auckland academics removed cattle from a rundown 1,334-acre farm in 2004; 250,000 planted trees and restored wetlands brought back 69 bird species |
Representative image of a restored landscape with young trees, wetlands and thriving vegetation, reflecting the transformation of degraded…
On renewable energy, it’s time to debunk the ‘transition minerals’ narrative (commentary)
The world needs to move from fossil fuels to renewable ones, but the narrative pushed by powerful…
This Arctic predator rivals the polar bear, and it lives on the seafloor
The hunting strategy that makes Pterasteridae starfish apex predators mirrors the polar bear’s survival playbook almost exactly, and…
Oil-Rich Oman Bets Big on Renewable Energy
Oman, a major oil and gas producer, plans to expand its renewable energy capacity as part of its…
Air conditioners are our best bet in the fight against extreme heat – whether we like it or not | Eduardo Porter
The greenest campaigners against climate change have long suffered from a crippling shortcoming: they too often frame the…
At Denmark’s Port of Aalborg, designers cut a retired wind-turbine blade into a curved roof that now shelters bicycles — a second life for the composite piece turbines can’t easily recycle
At the Port of Aalborg in northern Denmark, a section of decommissioned wind-turbine blade sits on steel supports…
It’s one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it’s about to bloom with millions of flowers
Stretching along an over 1,000km-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes, is the Atacama…
The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
The numbers are now trickling in: nearly 2,900 dead in the UK, at least 35,000 dead across Europe.…