Observations from the Little Bunker

Appeals court rejects Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s argument his home was at risk of being damaged by glacial flood A German appeals court has dismissed the case of a Peruvian farmer...

The 42-inch pipeline has a blast zone that includes hundreds of homes, businesses, schools, day cares, parks and recreation centers.By Lisa SorgTwo compressor stations along Transco’s natural gas pipeline in...

On a Thursday morning in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, two dozen people mill around a warehouse, waiting for the results of a lottery. At 7:45 sharp, a woman sitting in...

In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Bibb was living in a tight, one-bedroom apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. He couldn’t open his windows because his home was an old...

Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan. It...

Regenerative agriculture has growth potential for the offsets market, but scientists question its green credentialsOn a blustery spring day, Thomas Gent is walking through a field of winter wheat on...

There is a 70% chance that the 2025-2029 period will be more than 1.5C hotter than pre-industrial times, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) forecasters predicted in a report on Wednesday. The...

Abstract We investigate the skill of the fully initialized decadal forecasting system EC‐Earth3 in re‐forecasting the semiannual occurrence frequencies of synoptic‐scale atmospheric circulation types in the extratropics. Six‐hourly sea‐level pressure...

Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030There is an 80% chance that global temperatures will break at least one annual heat...

The legal battle between the state’s utility watchdog and Washington Gas is heating up after the company’s claims that methane gas is cleaner and cheaper than electricity were deemed false.By...

Reservoir lost 27.8m acre-feet of groundwater in 20 years, study finds, vanishing ‘twice as fast as surface water’The Colorado River basin has lost 27.8m acre-feet of groundwater in the past...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. It has long been recognized that energy is the currency of evolution, but contrasting conceptions of the...

A new analysis found that ingesting plastic can disrupt proteins that facilitate key functions in seabirds—the latest in a series of unsettling discoveries about marine plastic pollution.By Kiley PriceFor a...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. Mitochondria are central metabolic organelles that control cell fate and the development of mitochondrial diseases. Traditionally, phase...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025.

When formulating climate policy, too little attention is paid to social factors and too much to technological breakthroughs and economic reasons. Because citizens are hardly heard in this process, European...

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world’s coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the...

To a throng of goats foraging in a remote expanse of Sanibel Island, Florida, the low whir of a plane flying overhead was perhaps the only warning of what was...

Monica Feria-Tinta is a barrister at the Bar of England & Wales, and a leading advocate in environmental and climate change litigation both in English and international courts. What do...

Abstract The Colorado River Basin (CRB) is experiencing persistent aridification due to a complex interplay of natural and anthropogenic activities, resulting in significant groundwater depletion across the region. We used...

Band of water where marine life can survive has reduced in more than a fifth of global ocean between 2003 and 2022Great swathes of the planet’s oceans have become darker...

The state recently took the first step to potentially becoming a leader in next-generation nuclear energy.By Rambo TalabongWith growing energy demand and delays in renewable energy rollout, New Jersey is...

Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. the Environmental Protection Agency significantly limited the agency’s ability to use the 1972 Clean Water Act to safeguard...