Climate, Energy & Conservation
Did you know forests can save themselves? (With a little help from us, of course). Turns out, trees can be super valuable apart from being used for timber. Their seeds, nuts, leaves, bark, and more ar...
Age-old fears of declining fossil fuel supply and falling demand have, once again, been upended by the engines of progress. The anti-CO2 crusade, futile and wasteful, has been set back again. Tsvetana...
The chance to celebrate the wide variety of America's great outdoors is here as National Park Week is officially underway.
On a vast network of rivers flowing through the jungles of Papua New Guinea, researchers have rediscovered the spinach pipefish, a relative of the seahorse, which had not been recorded in more than 40...
Meanwhile, in the real world, global wildfire burn area is the lowest on record year-to-date. Reality does not quite square with Mohamad's United Nations propaganda. https://t.co/binvJmghXM pic.twitte...
NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia — A wallaby with a joey tucked into her pouch grazes beneath towering eucalyptus trees. Black cockatoos wheel overhead, their wailing calls echoing across the green hills of...
It will certainly be worth watching as countries struggle to map their way to an impossible future. Mind you these are professional diplomats who know how to talk about doing impossible things as thou...
A significant increase in sandbar sharks is making waves this summer across southern New England and Long Island’s South Shore.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-change-is-making-us-stupid By ROGER PIELKE JR. Excerpt: I take the title of today’s post from the closing line of a fantastic 2014 article by Dan Sarewitz ...
Huddled shoulder to shoulder, a flicker of glowing orange illuminates the faces gathered around. The world quiets. The dark presses in from every side, and the cold with it. At the center of it all, a...
Tragedy has unfolded in Louisiana where an 8-year-old has passed away after contracting a suspected brain-eating amoeba.
By mid-June, Jerrica Agebido was staring at disappointment. His nearly two-week-long, exhausting search for a mysterious fish that hasn’t been seen by scientists for nearly four decades was drawing to...
From the bed of the Negro River to nesting sites at the mouth of the Amazon River, plastic particles are already contaminating ecosystems and wildlife across the Amazon Rainforest.
In northwestern Costa Rica, the forest did not return all at once. First the cattle were removed. Then the fires had to be stopped. Introduced grasses made the old ranchlands burn too easily. Fence li...
On Aug. 12, for the second year in a row, the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean closed early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons. This precautionary quota is intended to pre...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Debbie Hendrikz was walking along her usual route on the shoreline when she crouched to photograph a seal. She is familiar with seals and has captured similar images along th...
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring two disturbances for potential tropical development in the Atlantic amid a quiet start to the hurricane season impeded by a strengthening El Niño clim...
Whether you’re looking to boat, paddle, swim or simply enjoy some family fun by the water, here are the top 10 clearest lakes in the U.S.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Lospalos in the Banda Sea late Monday night.
So many things happened between 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. 34 years ago today, it's hard to believe it was only 6 hours. At about 2:00 a.m., it became clear that the worst of Hurricane Andrew was going t...