Archive for May 2024
Complex Beauty in the Gulf of Oman
NASA’s newest Earth science satellite captured a striking image of swirling bands of phytoplankton.
Read MoreAs climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Read MoreOffset Schemes Failing to Benefit Indigenous People, Report Finds
Increasingly, businesses are writing off their carbon emissions by funding the conservation of forests. A new report finds that while such schemes have made “limited” progress in curbing deforestation, they have largely failed to alleviate poverty among Indigenous forest people.
Read MoreNature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you’d expect.
Read MoreLooming power grid rules could make or break the US energy transition
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has spent two years working on what could be the most important nationwide transmission grid reform in decades. Next week , it plans to finally announce its decision — and the implications for the clean energy transition are huge. FERC’s goal is to set rules for…
Read MoreThe first new US aluminum plant in decades plans big emissions cuts
This story was originally published by Grist . Aluminum is a crucial raw ingredient in the fight against climate change. But to ensure that the transition off fossil fuels is a clean one, the industry needs a serious makeover. A new federally funded “green smelter” could help make that happen. Producing this…
Read MoreSierra Snowpack Springs Back
A May storm dumped over two feet of snow in one day on parts of the California mountain range.
Read MoreSound of Whale Song Signals Antarctic Blue Whales May Be Making a Comeback
A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being hunted to the edge of extinction.
Read MoreWhat are nanoplastics? An engineer explains concerns about particles too small to see
Nanoplastics are the smallest microplastics, far narrower than a human hair. Very little is known about their composition, structure or how they break down in the environment.
Read MoreArizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.
“The tribes fought very hard for the establishment of the monument and are here to defend it.”
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