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The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.
On a ferry trip across the Cape Fear, they pass beaches and bird habitats that could be endangered by PFAS deposits. The Trump administration has...
Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.
Illegal mining has enriched the Maduro regime and criminal groups while devastating the Amazon and its people. The U.S. is pulling out of organizations aimed...
Trumpâs Venezuelan Oil Grab
Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle as they discuss the complex and uncertain future of Americaâs...
âIt was calm ⌠and then just hecticâ: David Rigby couldnât escape the Longwood bushfire so faced the inferno
Rigby saved his Yarck home, but many were lost. Another resident says: âNo one actually knows how bad it is. So many livestock are deadâGet...
Renewables create fewer jobs globally as energy transition enters ânew phaseâ
Jobs in renewable energy expanded only slightly in 2024 to reach 16.6 million worldwide, new figures show, suggesting that the industryâs ability to create employment...
I had an abortion due to climate anxiety. How can I come to terms with it? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
Counselling should help, but it sounds as if you need to slow down and give yourself time to grieveI am 37 years old, happily married...
Australiaâs Cop31 chief negotiator plans to lobby petrostates on fossil fuel phaseout
Exclusive: Chris Bowen says key to next UN climate summit will be âengagement, engagement, engagementâ with countries such as Saudi ArabiaGet our breaking news email,...
How community solar turned a Superfund site into savings in Illinois
As someone who spent several years as a workersâ rights organizer, Fredy Amador is intimately familiar with the financial struggles people face in the current economy....
3. 7-billion-year-old rocks reveal how Earth and the Moon were born
Crystals hidden in Australiaâs oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earthâs continents didnât begin growing...
Climate Cooperation Will Suffer as the U.S. Disengages From International Commitments
Experts say pulling the U.S. out of more than 60 global organizations will weaken international governance structures and lead to further fragmentation of global power.By...
Arizona Comes to Agreement With Major Dairy Farm to Cut Groundwater Pumping That Is Draining Wells
Willcox is ground zero for Arizonaâs groundwater crisis. The stateâs settlement with Riverview, the company draining the townâs aquifer, requires it to fallow fields and...
The Environmental and Cultural Benefits of Restoring the American Prairie
How policies to prevent the collapse of the grasslands can also support farmers.Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on EarthFrom our collaborating partner Living on Earth,...
Effect of Submerged Vegetation on Water Surface Geometry and AirâWater Momentum Transfer
Abstract Understanding how submerged vegetation modifies the water surface is crucial for modeling momentum exchange between shallow waters and the atmosphere. In particular, quantifying its...
Quebecâs Lake Rouge vanished â but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?
Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lakeManoel Dixon had just finished dinner...
Worldâs richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study showsThe worldâs richest 1% have used up...
AmbientâNoise Multicomponent Multimodal Dispersion Characteristics in Thick Sedimentary Basins
Abstract Ambient noise crossâcorrelations enable the extraction of multimodal surface waves, yet resolving their complex dispersion characteristics is essential for robust subsurface imaging. Using dense...
Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble
Abstract Weather regimes are widely used in weather prediction, but less often to study climate variability and change. Here, we use a yearâround North American...
New hepatitis B drug could help âfunctionally cureâ some patients
Scientists welcome GSK announcement that two trials succeededâeven though data are still lacking
Oil Executives Non-Committal to Trumpâs Venezuela Pitch at the White House
Exxon CEO Darren Woods called Venezuela âuninvestableâ at present and others expressed caution in response to the presidentâs overtures to pour billions of dollars into...
Assessment of compound hot-dry events in lakes across global drylands
Lake hot events (months with abnormally high lake surface water temperature) and dry events (months with abnormally low lake surface extent) can individually cause significant...
Burning Plastic Waste for Household Fuel Endangers Millions
People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic plastic waste inundating their communities to...
Dynamics of land transformation and carbon stock loss from nickel laterite open-pit mining in Indonesia
Global demands for nickelâa key energy transition metalâhave notably risen in recent years, positioning Indonesia as the worldâs major supplier. Nickel in Indonesia occurs in...
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