Critical minerals: The hidden resources powering the clean energy future
The story in 60 seconds Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, smart phone; they all depend 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,…
Free plug-in power banks to be given to households to cut energy bills
Households are set to be given free “plug-in batteries” to allow them to store power to help cut…
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…
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…
Fota celebrates births of endangered lion and tiger cubs
Two critically endangered Sumatran tiger cubs have been born in Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork. The cubs…
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…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
Beluga whales flown from closed Canadian marine park to new homes in the US
Six beluga whales have been transported from a closed marine park in Niagara Falls, Canada, to new homes…
Trump is punishing Canada for wildfire smoke for bizarre reasons.
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‘It’s truly hell here’: airstrikes, repression and water shortages become ‘new normal’ for Iranians | Iran
As US airstrikes hit port and inland cities in Iran, and Tehran strikes at the US’s Middle East…
Hosepipe ban extended nationwide from Friday
Uisce Éireann is extending its hosepipe ban nationwide, bringing every county under water restrictions from just after midnight…