Observations from the Little Bunker

Carolina Pasquali is executive director of Greenpeace Brazil and Jasper Inventor is executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. In times like these, we must ask ourselves some fundamental questions. Why...

Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar power. But now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing...

More than half of global mining projects for “energy transition” minerals are located on or near Indigenous territories. Indigenous advocates argue the world can’t solve climate change—a problem caused by...

Twenty-two-year-old software developer Artem Motorniuk has spent his entire life in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, living in the north and visiting his grandparents in the south. It’s been almost...

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California...

More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to...

Abstract Earth’s orbital precession is expected to have a sustained impact on global climate. However, existing sedimentary records from the westerlies‐influenced arid Central Asia (ACA) during the early Pleistocene are...

New York is poised to see an expansion of its gas infrastructure. This could have far-reaching implications.By Lauren DalbanA new study published this week in the journal Risk Analysis found...

World Meteorological Organization report says record heat in 2024 was driven by climate crisis and intersected with extreme weather eventsAlmost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east Asia and...

IntroductionAgro-meteorological services are crucial for mitigating climate variability’s impact on agriculture and enhancing food security. Despite their importance, the global research landscape in this field remains underexplored. This study examines...

Gates Foundation grant enables cash-strapped body to create unit seeking to bridge gap between mathematicians and math educators

But overall, machine learning approach closely matches what human scholars had long suspected about ancient documents

The U.S. Department of Energy says the plant, fueled by oil and gas, will help avert an energy “emergency.” Environmentalists say there’s no such crisis.By Jon HurdleA half-century-old Pennsylvania power...

Scientists are just beginning to understand how extreme weather can give pathogens an upper hand, underscoring the urgent need for the type of research canceled by the Trump administration.By Liza...

Continent faces a shortage of doses and distribution challenges

Abstract This study investigates the effectiveness of ensemble singular vectors (EnSVs) for a mesoscale convective system over the East China Sea, a challenge due to its strong nonlinearity. Employing breeding...

Abstract Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) can lead to severe disasters in Northeast China but are insufficiently studied in this region with complex terrain and complicated interactions between the mesoscale and...

Abstract Magnetic reconnection is an explosive energy release event. It plays an important role in accelerating particles to high non‐thermal energies. These particles often exhibit energy spectra characterized by a...

The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025, as the country enjoyed its sunniest spring on record. The figures,...

Having grown up in the Southeast, I’ve always loved a good summer thunderstorm. Sure, thunder can be loud and sometimes scary, but I associate storms with a feeling of coziness....

Groundwater levels are plunging in a rich agricultural region dubbed the Green Triangle. It’s a slowly unfolding disasterGraham Kilsby, a fourth-generation farmer, is surveying the Kilsby sinkhole, a popular freshwater...

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly...

Miguel Guimaraes Vásquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug traffickers. A...

A landmark global goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is close to slipping beyond reach – and may have not been achievable when it was set in...