‘Don’t panic’: How two men were rescued from a flood-stricken Nepali power plant
Kathmandu, Nepal — Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal…
Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years
A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica,…
France records its hottest summer
PARIS (AP) — France recorded its hottest summer since measurements began more than a century ago, the environment…
Ionic Rare Earths, US Strategic Metals form JV to build $100M magnet recycling plant in Missouri
Metal recycling. AI-generated stock image by DigitalSpace. Ionic Rare Earths (ASX: IXR) has, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary,…
Planting billions of trees in China to fight climate change backfired, altering the water distribution across the entire country
Billions of trees and grasses planted by China to fight climate change caused water to evaporate faster than…
Scientists covered an Amazon rainforest plot with 6,000 panels to block half its rain; large trees died and biomass fell by a third |
Deep in the Caxiuanã National Forest in northern Brazil, a patch of rainforest the size of a football…
In 2020, the US removed 69 dams, reconnecting 624 miles of rivers and restoring habitat for salmon, steelhead and native fish species | World News
Across the United States, some rivers are beginning to flow through places where dams once stood. In 2020,…
Magnitude 5 Earthquake Hits Tibet 7 Days After Deadly “Himalayan Tsunami”
An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Tibet on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The earthquake…
He began studying the Amazon in the 1970s; 50 years later, Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways
Philip Fearnside’s research has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon on account of deforestation, dams and highways…
Precipitation and soil phosphorus regulate post-drought resilience in tropical forests
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article CAS Google Scholar …
Why the world can’t agree how to tackle drought
Delegates from 196 nations plus EU officials have met in Mongolia to discuss how best to tackle drought…
India proposes mandatory battery storage for new renewable projects from July 2027
India plans to mandate battery storage for all new government solar and wind projects from July 2027, to…