Climate, Energy & Conservation
KLANG, Malaysia — On the morning of July 7, 2026, a shipping container declared to contain tin ore caught fire shortly after offloading at Port Klang, Malaysia. After firefighters doused the flames, t...
As global warming fuels more extreme rainfall in Appalachia, new research finds a link between flooding and opioid deaths.Read more on E360 →
As Tropical Depression Two continues to swirl over the Eastern Gulf of America, it shows no signs of slowing and could bring flash flooding and life-threatening storm conditions.
Even desperate measures like Australia's attempt to force US AI companies to pay for Aussie Net Zero have fallen flat.The postAussie Green Energy Plans in Chaos, as the Majority of Capacity Investment...
The European Commission has put forward new plans to cut emissions under the EU carbon...The postQ&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate actionappeared first onCarbon Brief.
In The Guardian’s story “Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis,” the paper laments that nearly three-quarters of British media coverage of June’s heatwave failed to m...
On July 15, gunfire erupted between armed groups near an Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Nyankunde (or Nyakunde), located 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Bunia in the eastern Democratic Republic...
An experienced local diver and underwater photographer has captured an extremely rare sight: a mother blue-ringed octopus carrying her eggs in Port Phillip Bay.
Voters are not failing to grasp the moral stakes of climate change, as Regunberg supposes; they are making entirely rational trade-offs between an abstract, long-horizon risk and the concrete, immedia...
They have names like Victoria, Makgadikgadi, Wembere and Dwarskersbos — but unlike their namesakes, they’re not landmarks in Africa. Instead, they’re small birds flying halfway across the world, showi...
After examining a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 2024, NASA is uncovering new details about ancient water, the chemical changes that shaped early asteroids and the materials that may have helped c...
“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” — Albert EinsteinThe postWeekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #698appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
Sub-Saharan Africa is on track to record its fastest-ever annual expansion in access to clean cooking in 2026, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. But population growth conti...
A group of women often climbs steep cliffs to set up camera traps for snow leopards around Kibber in Spiti Valley, India. The senior women know the landscape intimately, like what areas the animals us...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong conservation effort. The American Oystercatcher was...
MANAUS, Brazil — On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the shoreline of the Puraquequara Lake in eastern Manaus during a ga...
Tropical Storm Fausto is strengthening in the Eastern Pacific and is expected to become the first hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere this season, while Elida became post-tropical, but not before bri...
SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only spe...
Tropical Depression Two has a broad circulation with clusters of heavy thunderstorms, but it's infused with dry air. The overall environment is less conducive to organizing and strengthening today, bu...
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the year.