This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New technologies that capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as steel and cement making will be vital if the EU is to meet its goal of slashing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Conservationists have warned that the death of the last male northern white rhinoceros in Kenya is a sign that unsustainable human activity is driving a new era of mass extinctions around the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than one million deaths worldwide were attributable to the burning of fossil fuels in 2017, according to a new study. More than half of those deaths were attributable to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research shows that when a power system combines energy storage and solar power generation, the end result is greater than the sum of its parts in terms of its…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With summer coming around and COVID-19 travel restrictions loosening all around the country, Americans are eager to return to the great outdoors after a year-long quarantine. Of course, nothing says…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most extreme heat waves ever recorded baked the American West last week, with 40 million Americans affected by temperatures soaring above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Deemed a “mega-heat…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late 2017, photographer Matthijs Kuijpers spent two days driving into the mountains in Suriname–armed with guns, because of the presence of illegal gold mining in the area–in search of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Regenerative practices range from growing trees and reverting croplands to wild prairies, to rotating crops and allowing remnants after harvest to decompose into the ground. The techniques, already popular with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of illegal wildlife trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities are helping drive U.S. action on climate change, setting zero-emission targets that have expanded the market for renewable energy. In 2020 alone, 95 local governments across 33 states made…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new GPS-enabled study helps answer not only the questions of where and when African elephants in Gabon move, but also why. The study provides the first landscape-scale documentation of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The impacts of a changing climate are no longer a hypothetical. Each year, extreme events such as hurricanes, droughts, fires, and freezes grow more frequent and more intense—destroying homes, disrupting…