Residents brave floodwater for supplies after Bangkok inundated
In the bustling metropolis of Bangkok, where some neighbourhoods are still paralysed by lingering floodwaters, locals are getting…
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California | California
Concerns are mounting about an ocean phenomenon known as a Kelvin wave that could raise sea levels along…
One giant clam contains a month-by-month diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s climate 200 years ago
When you swim through the azure waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is one entity on the…
Las Vegas is tearing out some grass in parks throughout the city to combat drought
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The Parts Of The Ocean Where Almost Nothing Lives
A few miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, the ocean can become nearly uninhabitable.…
Corporations claim their fossil fuel emissions are a drop in the ocean. But what if we could count the real cost? | Greenhouse gas emissions
The biggest coal project before authorities in New South Wales, the HVO mine, will emit the equivalent of…
In 2015, a man saw two children drinking from a puddle in Ghana and built a solar water kiosk; 10 years later, his project supplies 126M litres | World News
Image: Project Maji Official Site In 2015, Sunil Lalvani witnessed two children drinking water from a puddle during…
Ireland’s first solar farm under SRESS scheme launched
Ireland’s first solar farm under the Government’s Small-Scale Renewable Energy Support Scheme (SRESS) has commenced operation. Flogas, a…
Major upgrade planned for Naburn water treatment plant
Plans for a major upgrade of a water treatment works near York have been submitted after a £35m…
The world’s southernmost wind farm uses just three turbines to help power U.S. and New Zealand research bases in Antarctica, cutting diesel consumption by about 122,000 gallons a year and preventing an estimated 1,242 metric tons of CO₂ emissions despite operating in one of Earth’s harshest environments
On a frozen ridge of Ross Island, three wind turbines turn above American McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s…
Japan has no space for solar farms apart from old golf courses
The perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two…
Nature spaces ‘need to be right next to where people live’
People should not have to travel far to experience the joys of nature, conservationists have said, as campaigners…