Climate, Energy & Conservation
Since June, Myanmar’s military government has increased its efforts to restart a massive, controversial hydropower project backed by China that has remained suspended for 15 years. The Myitsone Dam pr...
Scientists (Yilgan and Jónsdóttir, 2026) report annual mean sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea was 8.4 times greater in 2023 (2,403.6 km²) than in 2019 (287.6 km²). In the month of January, the sea i...
A team of archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered a nearly 2,400-year-old tomb near the ancient city of Aspendos that may have belonged to a wrestler.
It is continued subsidies or bust for the utility-scale solar industry.The post“Cheap” Solar Does Not Need Subsidies, Right? (wrong)appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
An upcoming UK government consultation on weakening targets for electric vehicles (EVs) could cost consumers as much as £3bn a…The postAnalysis: Weaker EV targets could cost UK consumers £3bn a year b...
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Three more African countries have joined calls for a precautionary pause on deep-sea mining until the environmental, social and economic impacts of such mining are better understood. This brings the n...
Currently there’s much hysteria across the German media surrounding this summer’s hot weather and drought. Without surprise, it’s allegedly unprecedented. But an old archive film from the German gover...
A deadly derecho, catastrophic flooding and more than one million customers left without power were just the beginning, as more rounds of severe weather threaten the region and much of the eastern U.S...
The durable result is the holding on Direct Final Rules. Any agency reaching for this shortcut now knows two things. The clock for judicial review does not start until the agency adheres to the rule. ...
In a village in central Nepal, growing conflict between farmers and rhesus macaques has prompted researchers to test artificial intelligence-based systems that can swiftly detect and deter the monkeys...
The discovery of a Martian meteorite may hold the answers scientists have been seeking regarding a 1.8 billion-year-old gap in data, offering new insight into the otherworldly rocks.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indigenous groups in Indonesia have made a legal challenge to parts of a new conservation law. The groups say it could allow the government to designate their ancestral lands as c...
Urban heat islands pose a growing global health threat. But in tropical cities, the peril is surging. Already burdened by hot-humid equatorial weather, global warming, intense poverty, rapid urbanizat...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country’s soy moratorium. The court also affirmed the constitutionality of the v...
HANGZHOU, China — On a misty morning in Zhejiang province, the peaks of Tianmu Mountain rise like sentinels above the forest canopy, their slopes wrapped in shifting veils of cloud. For centuries, mon...
An icy discovery was made by an international research team as they found that a large ice island, the size of Manhattan, had formed as a result of a glacier break.
More wet weather is on the way for people in the Northeast as rain and thunderstorms are expected to return by the end of the workweek in New York City.
Flash Flood Emergencies were issued Wednesday across east-central Indiana as torrential rainfall caused life-threatening flash flooding across the region.
A broad tropical disturbance officially tagged Invest 93C by the National Hurricane Center is just over 1,000 miles southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii. It has a well-defined circulation, but thunde...