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Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here
An upside-down mindset is emerging around the world. We have to rethink our relationship with the environment and the technology that’s caused it harmGet our...
America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in 6 months
About 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, workers have been building America’s largest offshore wind farm at a breakneck pace. The project will start feeding...
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuildingMargot Raggett has spent the past decade raising...
As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste
A federal plan to manage the coming “solar waste tsunami” of retired panels has missed its start date, leaving states and the solar industry to...
At a Solar Energy Conference, the Star Is … the Soil?
Beneath the gleaming rows of panels, developers learn that healthy soil can make or break a solar project.By Rambo TalabongSAVANNAH, Ga.—Imagine driving past a solar...
Rising Electric Rates Tied to Distribution Spending, Disasters and Some Clean Energy Programs, Study Says
A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab identified broad trends in electric rates from 2019 to 2024, but cautioned that it could not prove...
Gas Plant That’s Part of PJM’s Fast-Tracked Process Is Getting Pushback in Virginia
Tenaska’s 1.5 gigawatt proposal would be part of the reliability resource initiative for “shovel-ready, high-reliability” projects.By Charles PaullinSCOTTSVILLE, Va.—In rural Fluvanna County about an hour...
The Substorms of 26 February 2008: A Data‐Mining Perspective
Abstract Reconstruction of the magnetospheric magnetic field using swarms of virtual spacecraft provided by data mining confirms seminal in situ evidence (Angelopoulos et al., 2008,...
How poop-eating beetles evolved to eat rotting flesh
Analysis of thousands of fossils pushes back change in beetles’ diets by more than 37 million years
Effects of temperature overshoot amplitude on regional climate
Overshooting a global temperature target before returning back to the target using negative emissions is increasingly being discussed in light of ongoing emissions inconsistent with...
Bridging conservation and policy: evaluating national targets to reduce mangrove loss under the Kunming–Montreal biodiversity framework
The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to halt biodiversity loss by 2030, with Targets 1 and 3 focusing on reducing forest loss and expanding...
Use of Congressional Review Act on BLM Plans Could Impact State Plans Under Other Agencies
Republicans’ use of the little-known law could require agencies to get congressional approval for land management plans, creating uncertainty for planners and advocates in other...
Assessing PM2.5 pollution in the Northeastern United States from the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke: an episodic study integrating air quality and health impact modeling with emissions and meteorological uncertainty analysis
Between June 6 and 8, 2023, wildfires in Quebec, Canada generated massive smoke plumes that traveled long distances and deteriorated air quality across the Northeastern...
A systematic mapping review of hydrological hazard management in agent-based systems
Agent-based modelling (ABM) is becoming a widely explored method for investigating human–water systems, given its ability to represent heterogeneous actors and their decisions. ABM can...
Bull’s-eye! Static electricity pulls worm through air to its insect victim
Electrostatic charges may help roundworms infect a wide variety of hosts
High variation in the surface extent of freshwater ponds creates dynamic Arctic tundra landscapes in the lowlands of Eastern Siberia
Greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic tundra ponds and permafrost thaw provide important positive feedbacks to global warming. However, a high landscape heterogeneity and small size...
Decadal wind-driven east–west asymmetry of chlorophyll-a in the Ross Sea region
The Ross Sea, the most productive region of phytoplankton around the Antarctic margin, supports the marine food web in the Southern Ocean. However, the long-term...
Life cycle emissions of diverse fossil-based hydrogen production pathways for transportation application
Hydrogen potentially plays a key role in the transportation sector while transitioning to a net-zero emissions economy. Low-carbon hydrogen produced from fossil resources is often...
Hydrology controls thermokarst and alters carbon cycling and methane emissions in peatlands near the southern limit of permafrost
Permafrost peatlands store vast amounts of frozen carbon across northern landscapes. When ground ice melts, surface subsidence produces thermokarst landforms that expand wetlands at the...
Common research monkey is endangered, conservation group confirms
Listing could affect availability for biomedical studies
Precrop payoffs: causal machine learning reveals large but variable yield benefits of crop rotation in major breadbaskets
Building sustainable food systems that are resilient to climate change will require improved agricultural management and policy. One common practice that is well-known to benefit...
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