Climate, Energy & Conservation
How to Think About the Future (Part 6)
Before dawn breaks over Eor Ewaso, a village in southwestern Kenya, Judy Mukut is already awake. By 6:30 a.m., she has fetched water, milked the family’s cattle, prepared breakfast, cleaned the house ...
But you have to dig through pages of "alternative protein", "rewilding" and "legume protein" before getting to the bugs.The postBritain’s “Climate Crisis” Drought has Brought out the Bug Eatersappeare...
By Vijay Jayaraj A millennium ago, India’s Chola Kingdom commanded the seas of Southeast Asia, forming with the Indonesian archipelago deep mercantile and cultural roots and a shared economic destiny ...
As Brazil cracks down on the illegal clearing of forests, farmers and ranchers are moving into Bolivia, helping to fuel a wave of deforestation in a country where land is cheap and enforcement lax.Rea...
About a quarter of the Netherlands now sits below sea level, and the obvious explanation is that the sea rose. However, researchers who reconstructed the past thousand years of the Dutch coastal plain...
The ups and downs of summer weather continue across portions of the southwestern U.S. as wet weather gives way to warming temperatures.
Authorities in Iceland detained the M/V Bandero, an antiwhaling protest ship, on July 30 and held the boat in port in Reykjavík with its 21-person crew detained on board, according to Manolya Adan, an...
Octopus Energy: Don’t use electricity during solar eclipse By Paul Homewood Meanwhile, let’s all switch on our washing machines tomorrow night! Britain’s biggest energy supplier is urging people to av...
A woman in Florida was bitten by an alligator on Saturday while swimming in a river and has reportedly lost her arm after the attack.
SINGAPORE — On a Friday afternoon in July, a pest control officer patrols the grounds of Sungei Tengah Lodge, Singapore’s largest dormitory for migrant construction workers, picking up birds in variou...
https://www.nysun.com/article/scientist-sues-employer-that-denied-his-religious-accommodation-request-for-a-fossil-fuel-free-retirement-plan By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT New York Sun Excerpt: A New York-based...
Following a recent incident at the Proud Lake Recreation Area, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is warning the public not to harass or capture eastern massasauga rattlesnakes.
Tree growing has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change and ecosystem degradation, with governments, companies and nonprofits pledging to restore hundreds of millions of he...
Every day, millions of Brazilians recall how rich the country’s feline biodiversity is when they reach into their wallets: Since entering circulation in 2010, the ‘50 real’ notes have carried a printe...
Soon after becoming president and chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Adam Falk visited the giraffe keeper at the Bronx Zoo. What struck Falk was the source of the keeper’s commitmen...
As Bangladesh is rapidly being urbanized, more and more forests are getting fragmented, resulting in the construction of more roads, which means more wildlife are being killed in collisions with vehic...
The system about a third of the way from Africa to the Caribbean shows some signs of organization. The National Hurricane Center has the odds in the high range that it will develop into at least a tro...
What is the single deadliest animal in your state? The answer might surprise you. A fresh report compiled by the World Population Review breaks down which animals pose the greatest threat to people ac...
At least 5 people from Louisiana have died this year after being infected by the flesh-eating bacterium known as Vibrio vulnificus, according to a recent announcement from the Louisiana Health Departm...