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How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts
An Aurora Energy Research report explores how storage could be co-located with AI training facilities.By Arcelia MartinWith data center developers in Texas and most other...
How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to help plant 300 stalks of...
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers....
The risk of another “super typhoon” is growing – that’s why we’re suing Shell
Trixy Elle, a fishmonger from Batasan Island, lost her home and her business when Typhoon Odette tore through the Philippines in 2021. She is among...
As the Paris Agreement turns 10, what has it achieved?
The world’s efforts to avert catastrophic climate change are still far off track a decade after the Paris Agreement’s adoption, but the landmark pact has...
The town on the banks of the Nile that turned floods into fortune
After record flooding submerged Bor in South Sudan in 2020, the emergency response ended up turning it into a beacon of climate crisis adaptation The...
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’The climate crisis supercharged the deadly storms that killed more...
Funding for protected areas fell in 2024, threatening global nature target
A global goal to protect 30% of the planet’s land and sea ecosystems by 2030 is at risk of falling off track due to a...
ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar
Capacity additions to the Texas grid continue to be led by renewables.By Arcelia MartinBattery storage facilities and solar farms powered virtually all capacity growth in...
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to modelling by the National Energy System...
Assessing climate change impact on storm surge and funding strategies in east peninsular Malaysia
Climate change is intensifying storm surge risks in Southeast Asia, particularly along Malaysia’s east coast facing the South China Sea. This study uses the d4PDF...
A study protocol to co-develop and evaluate interventions that strengthen healthcare resilience to extreme weather events in three African countries: the ASTRA study
Extreme weather events (EWEs) are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, disrupting healthcare systems and increasing risks for vulnerable populations. In low-...
A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI
With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help
A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State
North Carolina topped the Environmental Integrity Project’s list for both personnel and program cuts, though a restructuring makes exact comparisons difficult. Still, one researcher said...
U.S. military funds AI tools to speed modeling of viral outbreaks
DARPA program could yield models of disease spread in days instead of weeks
Replenishing sapped groundwater could trigger small earthquakes
A boom in aquifer injection projects could unlock long-quiet faults
Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go...
How Belém launched the Just Transition mechanism
Amid stalled talks on finance, adaptation and fossil fuel transition at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s Amazon region, governments agreed to an ambitious Just...
The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon...
EU weakening of corporate sustainability rules ‘jeopardises’ climate action, critics say
The European Union’s decision to dilute its corporate sustainability rules could hurt the bloc’s efforts to fight climate change and risks rewarding companies with a...
When Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park, she is often greeted by farmers with cell phones...
Analysis: What are the causes of recent record-high global temperatures?
The past three years have been exceptionally warm globally. In 2023, global temperatures reached a new high, after they significantly exceeded expectations. This record was...
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