The side of the road isn't usually thought of as ideal habitat. But for insects, such as butterflies and their caterpillars, the long expanses of land along roads and utility corridors add up to a…
This Friday, May 22, marks the International Day for Biological Diversity. Every year, the United Nations uses this day as an opportunity both to celebrate the Earth's stunning biodiversity and to…
The City of Houston has committed to 100 percent renewable energy. Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the city has teamed up with NRG Energy to power all municipal operations with renewable energy…
Massive swarms of the voracious desert locust have been damaging crops and pastures and crippling communities in the Greater Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia since October 2019.…
The coronavirus lockdowns have had an “extreme” effect on daily carbon emissions, causing a whopping 17% drop globally during peak confinement measures by early April – levels last seen in 2006.…
As the climate crisis takes hold, the effects are noticed most conspicuously at the extremes like the poles and the desert, where the harsh environments are drastically altered by a changing climate.
As temperatures rise we predict increasing morbidity and mortality, particularly in the climate-vulnerable parts of northern Australia.
Last summer was bad for our health. We breathed hazardous air…
The devastation caused by hurricanes in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, North Carolina and Houston over the last few years is a direct effect of the climate crisis, which is making tropical storms stronger…
There’s a common DNA between political and marketing campaigns, and it’s not always a useful thing. It’s an outgrowth of capitalism that political campaigns are often engineered like marketing…
Solar and wind plants will be major contributors to low-carbon power grids, but there’s a key obstacle to their profitability, the authors write.
Dramatic reductions in the cost of wind and solar …
I can't tell you what I was doing on June 23, 1988, though I can take a guess.
I was a week or so from finishing my journalism course and — how times have changed — I'd already been offered a job.…
Cyclones in the Pacific and pandemics tell us a lot about global inequality and highlight our futile pursuit of profit.
In the midst of economic shocks and border closures caused by the coronavirus…
Satellites have now spotted the churning cyclone.
Satellites have spotted the first named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, Tropical Storm Arthur, swirling off the coast of North…
The short-term prospects for wind and solar power look rocky amid the economic upheaval of the coronavirus. But long term, renewables could emerge stronger than ever, especially if governments…
Researchers map ‘beginning of new ecosystem’ as algae bloom across surface of melting snow.
Scientists have created the first large-scale map of microscopic algae on the Antarctic peninsula as they…
Thanks to factors such as agricultural fertilizer runoff, Sargassum seaweed is growing out of control in many regions – it washes up on beaches in huge amounts. Utilizing a new technique, that…
The 16th crew at Concordia research Station in Antarctica to spend a full winter at the facility, wave goodbye to the Sun as it descends below the horizon, not to return for four months.
Sunday 3…
Health crisis pushed emissions down public agenda – but there’s growing appetite for global reset.
When 110 people gathered at a hotel in Birmingham in January for the UK’s first citizens’ assembly…
The coronavirus pandemic that’s sent the global economy into a tailspin highlights the need for international collaboration to tackle crises posing severe threats to human lives, chief among them…
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