New Solar Method Turns Ocean Into Drinking Water, While Extracting Valuable Lithium Without Waste
Vials of (left to right) seawater, salt water, nickel sulfate, copper chloride wastewater, and desalinated water with recovered…
The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy
Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits. These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t…
Rising Energy Bills Are Fueling a Global Home Battery Boom
Consumers are battling higher energy bills worldwide due to rising inflation and greater price volatility of oil and…
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive? | Birds
At the entrance to Wyperfeld national park, in north-west Victoria, more than a dozen pink cockatoos are sprinkled…
Why Evolution Stalled for Millions of Years Before Suddenly Exploding
Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for…
Call for legislated renewable energy target as community batteries announced for Perth, Bunbury
A climate advocate has called for a legislated target for renewable energy uptake as construction begins on 18…
Urban wildlife is changing from the inside out (commentary)
Cities are now home to wildlife like foxes, parrots, monkeys, raccoons, boars, and countless bird species, which…
Coal finally loses to the Sun
Electrek reports that solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity in May 2026, beating coal’s 12.2% for the first…
Bolivia moves to formalize mining permits without environmental licenses, and the plan reopens the clash between enforcement, revenue, and the ecological cost of “legalizing” the irregular
Bolivia’s government is weighing a decree that could turn 3,982 old mining authorizations into formal administrative mining contracts,…
A single kilogram of conventionally farmed beef requires approximately 15,400 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of around 100 standard bathtubs, and generates approximately 99 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of driving an average car about 250 miles.
The figures come from two of the most carefully constructed peer-reviewed datasets in environmental science. The water footprint…
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Redeploying unmodified consumer smartphones in a datacenter environment would be hazardous and inefficient. Smartphones’ compute elements are wrapped…
How Taiwan is balancing between American and Chinese visions of energy dominance
U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency on his first day back in office framed…