Climate, Energy & Conservation
Researchers have found the first genetic evidence of bat-borne viruses within commercially sold bat guano fertilizer in Thailand. However, the viral strains the team detected are not known to infect h...
The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT is a US-based nonprofit organization founded in 1985 that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues.The postWhy The Climate Realist Mo...
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...
In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow ...
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.
In a significant milestone, the Siraya people of Taiwan have won legal recognition from the government as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group. In late July, the Siraya were the fi...
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?.
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...
CARAMURU/PARAGUASSU INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a forest. “When we got sick, ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.