Climate, Energy & Conservation
The Great Simplification #226 with Matthew Monahan
Yellowstone National Park is often told as a story of recovery. Wolves returned and then elk changed their behavior. Willows and aspens then rebounded and rivers, it is said, changed course. The reint...
As EV sales boom and grids seek more energy storage, researchers are racing to develop batteries that are cheaper, more powerful, and less reliant on hard-to-source materials. Lithium-ion still domina...
Delaware was once an economic dynamo that attracted corporations with tax incentives. But it now ranks 46th in GDP growth nationally. Pulling out of RGGI would begin the process of a long-overdue U-tu...
The Boston Globe claims in “Climate change fueled the extreme heat in Europe. New England is next,” (subsequently retitled, “What two continents’ heat waves tell us about the climate crisis”) that tod...
Colorado State University is out with their updated forecast for this hurricane season. Dr. Phil Klotzbach and the team are predicting even fewer storms than they were in April and June.
Share this far and wide. pic.twitter.com/dD2T6ZsJUl — Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) June 30, 2026
Today’s climate models are so inaccurate they must be improved a hundredfold just to detect a CO2 signal in climate change. Though clouds “are the largest moderator of Earth’s radiation budget and the...
Known for their unique ability to polish off animal carcasses and minimize the potential for disease outbreaks, vultures are one of the most endangered bird groups on the planet today. Around many pa...
Pervasive plastic contamination and flawed analytical techniques have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body. In an interview, Australian scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built a plasti...
Given all of this, why on earth are we proposing to spend hundreds of billions on an impossible dream?The postUK Carbon Footprintappeared first onWatts Up With That?.
Colorado State University (CSU) again lowered its Atlantic hurricane season forecast Wednesday, citing the high potential for a very strong El Niño during the peak of the season.
The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, with many funders making financial commitments to conserve this crucial ecosystem. Yet, when the declarations are traced to the ground, the capital is ra...
What authorities are calling a "close call" unfolded over the holiday weekend when two snorkelers found themselves in a critical situation after being swept farther from shore by a strong current at D...
Four Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit before the High Court in London, U.K., against a contentious oil pipeline under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, human rights group Avaaz announced at a p...
Clinical trials for treatments targeting the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus disease began on July 2 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The goal is to develop a standard treatment for the strai...
Thailand’s natural rubber industry is racing to comply with a new EU anti-deforestation law that will take effect in 2027, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. Thailand is the world’s largest producer of...
The New York City Fire Department rescued eight passengers on Sunday after their boat began sinking in the Bronx, New York. FDNY arrived on the scene within minutes and found a partially submerged 30-...
Thunderstorms are targeting the Mid-Atlantic, including Virginia and North Carolina, with another round of damaging wind gusts, just days after storms disrupted July 4 celebrations across the region. ...
A family dog in Torrington, Connecticut, is being hailed as a hero after protecting a young child from a black bear.