Planting billions of trees in China to fight climate change backfired, altering the water distribution across the entire country
Billions of trees and grasses planted by China to fight climate change caused water to evaporate faster than…
In 2020, the US removed 69 dams, reconnecting 624 miles of rivers and restoring habitat for salmon, steelhead and native fish species | World News
Across the United States, some rivers are beginning to flow through places where dams once stood. In 2020,…
I took an expedition cruise from Iceland to Greenland and it was the trip of a lifetime
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A panel that spent 25 years in a field comes apart on a belt in Georgia, and the recycled glass off its front went into test modules that matched ones built from virgin sand
The panel comes up the belt face up, cells still catching the light. Somebody bolted it down a…
Cape Town water crisis fears as City warns of restrictions within weeks
Theewaterskloof Dam in the Western Cape during the 2018 drought. Cape Town could be placed under water restrictions…
Deep in the Amazon, researchers found birds and monkeys passing predator warnings from one species to another — a single alarm can ripple through the canopy as other animals hear it, react and pass the danger on
A hawk slips between the leaves, and the forest immediately starts talking behind its back. In a remote…
India proposes mandatory battery storage for new renewable projects from July 2027
India plans to mandate battery storage for all new government solar and wind projects from July 2027, to…
Bexhill had most pollution-risk warnings of Sussex beaches
Environment Agency daily forecast records from May 6 to September 2 show Bexhill received 18 increased risk warnings…
Six months on, are weekly food waste collections a success?
Hedon, like other places in East Yorkshire, now has weekly food waste collections. Debbie Agius uses her kitchen…
Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England | Water
Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people,…
Two men rescued from flood-stricken Nepali power plant where scores trapped
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‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’ | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be found, and some…