The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker
Simon Paré-Poupart begins Trash!, a memoir of his years as a garbage collector, by explaining why he started…
Future-proofing interpretations of the Paris Agreement’s limit of well below 2 °C
The Paris Agreement requires global warming to remain ‘well below 2 °C’ relative to pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts…
European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th | Environment
Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution…
Researchers harvest water from the air to grow native seedlings and rehydrate the Wheatbelt
Capturing water in the atmosphere and making it available for drinking could be the new frontier of water…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
The Arctic Ocean May Have Passed a Crucial Tipping Point That Could Harm Food Webs and Worsen Climate Change
Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that…
Another Super El Niño is brewing. Scientists are looking at a controversial solution to squash them
A Super El Niño is brewing and it could be the most intense in decades, threatening a dramatic…
Moa Point sewage disaster: First independent findings to remain secret
“The interim report will not be released at this time, following advice from the Crown Review Team that…
Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e-waste
The UK has some of the oldest houses in Europe. Half of the homes in England are rated…
Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic – new research
East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by…
Assessing corporate sustainability with large language models: evidence from Europe
ML framework overview Our end-to-end ML framework operates as follows (Fig. 1b; see the “Methods” and the Supplementary Information for…
Flood lessons to be learned
The clean-up from the weekend’s torrential rain had barely started before the recriminations began. Floods are a heart-breaking…