Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution
“I think we’re going to enable a larger-scale use and adoption of it that could be meaningful to…
Extreme heat on Independence Day will be America’s new normal, experts say : NPR
People cope with extreme heat along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Amid Farahi/AFP via Getty…
Fishing for DNA – how a cup of river water can reveal secrets about human health, pollution and biodiversity
The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways…
Washington records world’s worst air quality for a city after 850,000 Fourth of July fireworks | Washington DC
Washington DC residents breathed in “unhealthy” air for hours after a 40-minute Independence Day fireworks show over the…
Record wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost | Wildfires
When storm after storm battered the Mediterranean at the start of the year, drowning fields and sending water…
‘Frankenstein organisms’ and ‘crystal supercells’ are among 31 new species discovered after marine biologists sent a robot into one of the least-explored parts of the ocean off Brazil
Some of the creatures had the appearance of being assembled rather than formed by growth. Other creatures were…
Wildflower meadow returned without planting a single seed
A patch of farmland left to its own devices for over a decade has quietly transformed into a…
Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be locked in
A visualisation of Atlantic Ocean currents based on sea surface temperature data NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization…
New study finds clear-cut logging can dramatically increase flood risk
In the past 30 years, floods have affected more than 2.8 billion people worldwide and caused over 500,000…
Ugandan Coffee Growers Shrug Off Drought Thanks to Regenerative Agriculture
Cover cropping between the coffee plants – credit, KCL officer Aventino Ssentume, provided to the IUCN Among the…
Plans must be put in place before heatwaves – not cobbled together during them | Extreme heat
You report on hospitals declaring critical incidents as their systems fail in the heat (Hospitals in England declare…
Expanding our Heat Resilience data to 50+ global cities
Approximately 500,000 deaths every year are attributed to extreme heat, a crisis intensified by the urban heat island…