Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe | Drought
Extreme heat supercharged by the climate crisis is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting…
Underwater drones discover coral reefs off Benin, long presumed dead, teeming with life
A picture of the reef by Gérard Zinzindohoué Scientists in search of coral reef barriers which had been…
Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
As of Sept. 1, Muslim students at Québec’s post-secondary colleges, known as CEGEPs, will have no place to…
Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds
Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, according to a…
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
The surface of the Denmark Strait gives no sign of a three-kilometre drop below. Between Greenland and Iceland,…
Security Council LIVE: Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?
The Security Council met Wednesday in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper…
Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
In cities, summer nights reveal the one thing running air conditioners at full blast can never fix, and it has nothing to do with the unit itself
Step outside at midnight in Phoenix or Houston on a July night and something feels wrong. It is…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone? | Global development
A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from…
Critical minerals: The hidden resources powering the clean energy future
The story in 60 seconds Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, smart phone; they all depend on…
China’s world-leading renewable megabases rely on coal-heavy transmission
Beijing: China is building more large-scale wind and solar than the rest of the world combined, but inadequate…