Canada’s Most Powerful Icebreaker Reaches North Pole
Canada’s largest and most powerful icebreaker has reached the North Pole as part of a multi-year effort to…
Why Chinese Tourists Are Paying For ‘Disaster Experiences’ In The Name Of Dark Tourism
A unique trend of “dark tourism” is gaining popularity in China, where young adventurers pay to experience extreme, simulated…
Emergency alert warning of wildfire risk sent to phones in England and Wales | Wildfires
Millions of people across England and Wales received an emergency alert to their phones on Friday as the…
NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the…
Particulate air pollution undermines plant water-use efficiency by inhibiting photosynthesis
Keenan, T. F. et al. Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise. Nature 499,…
Oil Majors Reap $93 Billion Windfall From the Iran War
Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait…
How to Prevent Biofuels from Causing Deforestation – Energy Institute Blog
A tax on food uses of vegetable oils could insulate global vegetable-oil prices from U.S. biofuel policy, thereby…
The End of the European Summer
Although climate scientists warned in the nineteen-eighties that extreme heat posed a growing danger, policymakers in Europe didn’t…
China’s Renewables Boom Faces Record Clean Power Curtailments
Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind…
World-first wooden turbine blade plant aims to tackle fiberglass waste
A German startup is moving forward with plans to build the world’s first large-scale factory for wooden wind…
Rhossi, a rare sea turtle, recovers after 5,000-mile trek from Wales to Texas | Texas
A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle native to the Gulf of Mexico is largely thriving after he was found…
First sighting of critically endangered bee in 26 years
A critically endangered species of bee has been spotted in Ireland for the first time in 26 years.…