Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals
The 2025 AI Action Summit revealed that there are even more challenges in this area than initially anticipated…
In Antarctica, a frozen vault holds the secrets of the world’s vanishing glaciers
Summary Scientists are preserving ice cores from endangered glaciers in a vault carved deep beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface.…
One-in-100-year coastal floods now happening twice a year in Wellington – study
Sea level rise caused by climate change is set to expose areas like Wellington to more frequent coastal…
Clean air ambitions for Masterton will take decades
It could take 20 years for Masterton to meet international air quality guidelines, exposing vulnerable people to “unacceptably…
The End of Climate Politics
In Manhattan’s Union Square, mounted on a building home to a Best Buy and $8,000-a-month one-bedroom apartments, is…
Global reallocation of rainfed crops can boost production and reduce climate risk
Zhu, P. et al. Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields. Nat. Clim. Change…
Chinese project converts coal waste into construction materials
China is turning the massive environmental liabilities of its coal-mining history into the raw materials for its next…
Scientists identify 166,000 sq km of coral reef capable of surviving climate crisis
SINGAPORE: Scientists have identified nearly 166,000 sq km (64,000 sq miles) of coral reefs that are capable of…
American Samoan congresswoman backs Trump’s Pacific fishing executive order
US President Donald Trump displays a proclamation on “returning American commercial fishing in the Pacific” in the Oval…
Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting?
When Jane Flegal was working in market development for Frontier Climate, a $1 billion initiative to catalyze advances…
Canada just cleared the world’s most powerful floating tidal turbine for the Bay of Fundy, a 680-ton machine that drops two rotors into the fastest tides on Earth and tows itself home before the current can wreck it
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Canada just greenlit a floating tidal turbine for the Bay of Fundy — the same stretch of…
Recreational anglers demand end to tunnel-net trials in north Queensland
Recreational fishers are demanding an end to the trial of 1.6-kilometre-long fishing nets in the Great Barrier Reef…