Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis | US news
The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado River crisis on Friday,…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…
Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles? An expert explains
Last week a government minister in the Northern Territory, spruiking a plan to make Darwin “the datacentre capital…
A rollercoaster of weather extremes: drought and heatwaves are creating UK’s climate whiplash
The UK is bouncing from one type of extreme weather to another this year. This is climate whiplash.…
Europa may hold more water than Earth, but a new study suggests its hidden ocean is almost impossible to reach |
Representative Image of Europa’s hidden ocean beneath its icy surface (AI-generated image) Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons,…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash: its plastic averages roughly 50 kilograms spread across each square kilometer, and a 2022 study found 75 to 86 percent of the large floating debris by mass came from fishing gear, not household waste
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is usually pictured as a floating landfill, a raft of bottles and bags…
Funnels That Harvest Rain and Solar Power While Shading a Public Plaza
Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces…
Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities…
Europe wildfires: Greece battles fresh blazes as France, Spain improve
Residents near Bordeaux allowed home after evacuation orders lifted.Europe 3.3C above its 1961 to 1990 average. People evacuated…
Building for 131°F: How Europe is preparing for extreme heat
On the Eurostar platform at St Pancras International station in London, Great Britain, on 1 November 2025. Stephane…
Oil spill from shadow fleet tanker spreading off Oman, satellite imagery shows
Concern grows over risk to Omani coastal areas Tanker loaded Russian oil before voyage, data shows Cause of…
The U.S. dumped 2 million tires into the ocean to build an artificial reef in 1970. Decades later, officials are still trying to clean up the environmental disaster
Humans have been tossing objects in the ocean with the knowledge that once on the seabed they provide…