Korea dangles $0.60 discount to push coffee drinkers away from plastic
A coffee cup made of single-use plastic is pictured in use at a cafe in Seoul, Jan. 6,…
Floods, twisters and mayhem – yes, they could hit Hamilton
Hamilton’s got a reputation for being a city largely without floods, quakes or other natural disasters. But growing…
Water pollution has long been a threat to the Great Barrier Reef – plans to fix it aren’t up to the task
When you think about threats to the Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching due to climate change would likely…
China Just Connected the World’s Biggest Hybrid Solar Plant to the Grid
The face of energy security is changing. Historically, fossil fuels have represented security thanks to their established supply…
StratX raises $1.19M to tackle landfill methane with living biocovers
StratX, a climatetech company specialising in greenhouse gas reductions from landfills, has raised $1.19 million in a funding…
Britain left a five-acre farm without crops or new seeds; 15 years later, nature had turned it into a wildflower-rich meadow
Abandoned farmland restored to wildflower meadow without sowing seeds A five-acre piece of Norfolk (England county) farmland left…
After one city cut checkout bags by 80 percent, records from 45,000 beach cleanups revealed the drifting plastic bag that fools sea turtles was tangling up 30 percent fewer animals along the shore
Almost every American has done it hundreds of times without a second thought. You finish at the register,…
Experience Ana Mendieta’s Visceral, ‘Neolithic’ Work in a Major Survey — Colossal
Rarely do artists conceive of work that is prescient and, decades on, more urgent than when it was…
Europe ablaze: London at risk, forest burns near Paris and Spain counts wildfire cost
The fire erupted on Sunday in the sprawling Fontainebleau Forest, about 60km southeast of the capital. The wildfire…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Surviving extreme heat increasingly boils down to this: access to air conditioning | Mark Wolfe
This summer, much of the media’s attention has focused on record temperatures across Europe and the United States.…
Ōrewa seawall project complete, shared pathway open
The new seawall and shared pathway at the northern end of Ōrewa Beach is complete and open to…