The ex-oil executive trying to wean us off fossil fuels
Samantha Cooper once helped power the oil industry. Now she’s fighting to end its hold on our future…
200,000 Leaky Barrels of Radioactive Waste Are Lying at the Bottom of the Atlantic
Not a great thing to have in your living room. Photo: From the Nautile submersible We humans create…
Centuries Ago, Europeans Were Plagued by Constant Flooding, With 16 Major Events That Killed Thousands Over the Course of Just Three Years
When researchers went looking for information about the legendary Magdalena Flood, they were surprised to discover that it…
Sovereignty, farming and fishing: Iceland votes on its future with the EU | Iceland
For a long time, the prospect of becoming the third generation to run his family farm was an…
Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
An international team of researchers, led in part by the University of Ottawa, has documented a major calving…
Antarctica gained 766 billion tons of ice in just 22 months
After decades of losses, satellites recorded a massive Antarctic ice gain between 2021 and 2023, but researchers say…
A Relentless Storm Pattern Is Making Arctic Sea Ice Disappear Faster
Aerial view of newly formed sea ice in the Arctic. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / IceCam / Stefan…
Number of Australians missing in Nepal’s deadly floods rises again, as Albanese deploys more personnel | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The number of Australians who were reported missing in the catastrophic Nepal flooding disaster has risen to 41,…
The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events
NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the…
Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back
As many cities developed, streams that once flowed on the surface were buried underground to make way for…
‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The three women sat together in the army tent and wept. They cried out for their sons, their…
Cyclic Materials lands $75M to expand US rare earth recycling
Rare earths recycler Cyclic Materials closed on Thursday a $75 million strategic financing round, bringing total equity funding to $237 million. Cyclic said the capital…