Marine fuel choices and related life-cycle environmental impacts under global shipping policies
Global energy transition model GET v11 is a sector-coupled, energy system optimization (linear programming), mathematical model based on…
Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies will need to be deployed at rates even faster than those seen for…
AMOC And The Planet-Wide Impact Of Ocean Currents
Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans,…
‘Well and truly on its way’: El Niño very likely to peak over NZ summer
An El Niño that peaks over the New Zealand summer is now very likely, bringing with it the…
There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass | Fossil fuels
When Christiaan van Woudenberg moved to Erie, Colorado, in 2007, he never imagined he would become an anti-fracking…
A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas – and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems
Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State…
Arabica Coffee Tumbles on Brazil Harvest Pressures
Coffee in a cup on a background of coffee beans by Zadorozhnyi Viktor via Shutterstock July arabica coffee…
Endangered crested ibises return to Japanese wild decades after extinction
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Can you not? Plastic and metal ‘franken-can’ named Australia’s worst packaging at Unpackit awards | Plastics
A single-use plastic and metal drinking vessel dubbed a “franken-can” has been given the dubious honour of the…
Shinjuku street drinkers ignoring “No Littering” warnings
TOKYO (TR) – The neon-lit streets of Shinjuku Ward’s bustling nightlife districts face a mounting crisis of widespread…
An autonomous submarine named Ran mapped 54 square miles under Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf and found plateaus, terraced “steps,” and teardrop pits carved by basal melt, then lost contact and disappeared, leaving behind data that shows why melt can concentrate in hidden fractures models often miss
Ran, a robot submarine sent beneath West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, returned a set of rare maps before…
Amazon oil drilling plan excludes unique hybrid manatees too big for rescue
Brazil’s environmental agency approved oil drilling off the mouth of the Amazon River, even though oil company…