Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
As of Sept. 1, Muslim students at Québec’s post-secondary colleges, known as CEGEPs, will have no place to…
Security Council LIVE: Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?
The Security Council met Wednesday in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper…
Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
Arctic bobtail squid seen alive in natural habitat for first time ever
Stretching for 972,000 km2, Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park on the planet. But, despite its epic…
Amazon lays off some employees in its AGI unit
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on…
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
The surface of the Denmark Strait gives no sign of a three-kilometre drop below. Between Greenland and Iceland,…
The feds no longer protect endangered species habitat. States say they can’t pick up the slack.
Few wildlife agencies have the authority to regulate habitat under state laws. By Alex Brown for Stateline The…
Council claws consent costs back from Greytown solar farm
South Wairarapa ratepayers are off the hook for a $320,700 bill after the Environment Court ordered a Greytown…
China’s world-leading renewable megabases rely on coal-heavy transmission
Beijing: China is building more large-scale wind and solar than the rest of the world combined, but inadequate…
The Aral Sea’s disappearance became one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die |
In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of…
It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone? | Global development
A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from…
In cities, summer nights reveal the one thing running air conditioners at full blast can never fix, and it has nothing to do with the unit itself
Step outside at midnight in Phoenix or Houston on a July night and something feels wrong. It is…