Climate, Energy & Conservation
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on July 24th, 2026, titled “Watch With Both Eyes Open: The Beauty and the Horror of Our Moment.”
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam has become a manufacturing powerhouse, driven by an electricity boom that’s fueled by coal.
By Ronald Stein*, Olivia Vaughan, and Steve Curtis Electricity policy, at its core is economic policy. Nations that can produce abundant, reliable, and affordable electricity create the conditions for...
An Indigenous community on Indonesia’s Seram Island is preserving a centuries-old coming-of-age ritual while helping protect the endangered salmon-crested cockatoo, a new study has found. The study, p...
I can’t think of any argument that 0.007 °C of avoided temperature rise, or 0.7 cm of avoided sea level rise is other than completely de minimus, indeed likely well less than any ability to detect or ...
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño”…The postExplainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weatherapp...
A vast system of Atlantic currents appears to be weakening, and scientists say its collapse could lead to dramatic cooling in northern Europe. A new study suggests an additional risk: a surge in warmi...
Saharan dust season is slowly coming to an end, but the regime of hostile upper-level winds across the Caribbean and the Atlantic continues. For now, the disturbances moving off Africa have no chance ...
On a Brazilian beach, a family gave seaweed new life.
There is nothing unprecedented about the weather in the past week.The postJust as Hot in 1911appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
Researchers have stumbled upon a new species of the spadefoot toad in California after digging up the rare fossil, offering the opportunity to study these creatures from thousands of years ago.
JAKARTA — Indonesia recorded more allegations of human rights and environmental abuses linked to Chinese investments in transition minerals than any other country between 2023 and 2025, a new report s...
Any predictive system constructing cycles of variable duration and/or varying amplitude will fail after a few cycles if the mechanisms behind the variability are not fully understood and/or cannot be ...
Three gas tanks exploded in Glenpool, Oklahoma, on Monday, after lightning struck a tank at a pipeline facility.
Queen conch were once so abundant that fishers in many parts of the Caribbean could wade into knee-deep waters and gather armfuls of the pink, whorled shells. Today, however, the giant marine snails a...
Bangladesh’s energy system is facing intense pressure from the country’s ongoing fuel crisis and rising electricity bills. Yet thousands of garment factories’ rooftops that could be fitted with solar ...
GOLIATI, Malawi — All that’s left to eat in Tapiwa Ligomeka’s one-room home is stored in a small plastic basin in one corner. Two days earlier, her husband came home with 2 kilos of maize meal, about ...
Until 2020, 99% of Liberia’s Grand Gedeh county was covered by natural forests. Since then, cacao farms have rapidly encroached on those forests, reports Mongabay’s Ashoka Mukpo. Grand Gedeh in southe...
In the last four years, Nepal’s wild tiger population has experienced a historic increase. In 2022, the tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population was numbered at 355 individuals. Now, it has reached a...
Space lovers and skywatchers alike can rejoice in more celestial news as experts at NASA share astonishing images of the Lion Nebula roaring with life.