Wind turbines are sold as clean energy’s answer, and they are, but the blades turning overhead hide a recycling problem almost no one sees coming
Drive past a wind farm on an open stretch of American highway and the turbines look like the…
Happy Canada Day from Senior Discovery Tours!
Dear Traveller, Happy Canada Day! We hope you’re enjoying the day, whether you’re celebrating with a backyard barbecue,…
Forecasters warn of record-breaking US summer heat amid intense El Niño | US news
Meteorologists are anticipating a tumultuous summer that could rank as one of the US’s hottest ever. New data…
Chinese breakthrough could make desalinated seawater cheaper than bottled water
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
They sent robots into the deadliest stretch of ocean on Earth, where 800 ships have sunk, and found underwater mountains quietly running one of the planet’s biggest carbon pumps
Picture the most savage stretch of ocean on the planet. Waves up to 60 feet high in the…
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution
We quantify the community-specific PM2.5 air pollution and health-related impacts of one reference scenario and two net-zero scenarios…
‘Tonnes of rubble’: 58,000 buildings estimated destroyed in Venezuela earthquakes | Venezuela
More than 58,000 buildings may have been damaged and destroyed by the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela last…
Scientists fear seabird die-off as El Niño looms: ‘We don’t know how bad this will get’ | San Diego
Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses –…
Mexico’s legendary rescue brigade heads to Venezuela as earthquakes death toll tops 2,200
Méndez, 80, helped organize spontaneous civilian rescue efforts after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and has led Topos…
Guest post: Climate change has caused one-fifth of Pine Island glacier retreat
The Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica is one of the fastest-changing glaciers in the world. Alongside its…
First new open-ocean subsea research habitat in 40 years launched
In this video, New Scientist CoLab partners with ocean engineering company DEEP to follow the deployment of Vanguard,…
Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning
Benayas, J. M. R., Newton, A. C., Diaz, A. & Bullock, J. M. Enhancement of biodiversity and ecosystem…