Climate, Energy & Conservation
The Great Simplification #232 with Charles Eisenstein
Nearly 200 people have invaded the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state since mid‑August, smashing through the Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai)’s gates, tearing down warning signs and s...
Five companies were picked to build microreactors on Army bases. Which ones have a credible path to commercial success? Are any investable?
Across the U.S., tech companies have courted backlash for using polluting gas generators to power massive new data centers. But energy industry data shows that in addition to building out natural gas,...
If cooler heads do not prevail, Carney’s dagger threatens not only the oldest and most intimate trading relationship in North America but also the energy security interests of the entire American hemi...
The New York Times (NYT) ran a story claiming climate change is threatening the survival of the world’s coral reefs. This is false. New coral colonies, adapted to warmer waters are being found with re...
An average Atlantic hurricane season produces 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes. While the season officially wraps up on November 30, we are tracking a very quiet year due to hostil...
KATHMANDU — Nepal’s long-held policy of harnessing hydroelectricity and using it for economic growth has met new challenges: potential catastrophic floods in the snow-fed rivers amid rising global tem...
The Ark-La-Tex lithium industry is in its infancy but has potential to revitalize rural and small-town economies – and that dovetails with the goals both of President Trump’s 2018 Rural Prosperity Tas...
What's left of Tropical Storm Edouard is drenching East Texas. The storms winds have decreased, so Edouard is now classified as a tropical depression. On the radar, you can see that it still has an im...
The Philippines is moving to accelerate critical-mineral development across millions of hectares of land, raising concerns that expanded mining and faster permitting could put pressure on forests, anc...
The first fall storms of the season are set to drench the Pacific Northwest, just as meteorological fall gets underway, and could provide beneficial rain that would ease wildfires amid a record-settin...
REQUENA, Peru — Until a century ago, few Matsés had ever been in contact with a white person before. The Indigenous people lived in a remote area of the Amazon Rainforest, along the border of Peru and...
In July, following relentless bursts of rainfall, flash floods covered pockets of Lagos, disrupting commerce and traffic in Nigeria’s commercial capital. Experts have found that the city now faces inc...
Corals share a close bond with the fish dwelling among them and the algae living within them. According to a new study, that relationship could be even stronger than previously known, with fish aiding...
TENGJHIH HAMLET, Taiwan – Nestled high on a mountain slope in southern Taiwan, Tengjhih was a key settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people. Today, however, little remains but memories of the hamlet. ...
In the forests of the Philippines’ Mindoro Island, an urgent effort is underway to record the vanishing ecological knowledge of the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan community. As elders age and fewer young pe...
Many of Southeast Asia’s native oak species are under high stress from human pressures and lack protection, according to a recent report, reports contributor Sean Mowbray for Mongabay. Of the 430 know...
As several disturbances ride along the northern edge of a heat dome anchored over the Central Mississippi Valley, a stormy stretch has taken shape across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes, ...
Tropical Depression Edouard is swamping Southeast Texas with heavy rain and flash flooding and has left more than 70,000 customers without power as it slowly makes its way inland.