Scientists solve 12,800-year-old climate mystery hidden in Greenland ice
Buried deep in Greenland’s ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp spike…
Duke Energy agrees to explore a cleaner way to power…
North Carolina — like much of the U.S. — is in a high-stakes race to protect consumers and the climate…
Amid energy market turmoil, the people taking power into their own hands
As war exposes the fragility of global energy supplies, communities are showing how clean power can be local, affordable and…
Wildfires in carbon-rich tropical peatlands hit 2000-year high
A new study has found a sharp and unusual rise in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century, marking…
Landmark deal to share Chile’s lithium windfall fractures Indigenous communities
Rudecindo Espíndola’s family has been growing corn, figs and other crops for generations in the Soncor Valley in northern Chile,…
Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations | Insects
On a cloudless sunny day in October 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack stood on a mountain pass in the…
Trump deal for a $33B gas megaplant in Ohio faces huge…
The Department of Commerce has not answered Canary Media’s repeated requests for more details about the power plant deal, nor…
Roadmap launched to restart deadlocked UN plastics treaty talks
Diplomats will hold a series of informal meetings this year in a bid to revive stalled talks over a global…
10 ways that future urban living will be greener
6. People-powered lighting Laurence Kemball-Cook founded Pavegen with a simple but ambitious aim: to create affordable off-grid electricity in cities.…
Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves | Oceans
In the late 1990s in El Salvador, Rodrigo Barraza went in search of every surfer’s dream: a pristine wave, far…
As Trump’s attacks on science escalate, Big Oil moves to avoid legal accountability
Carly Phillips is a research scientist with the Science Hub for Climate Litigation at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The…
How a tiny Texas town is using wind energy to help out…
This year, Martinez became a beneficiary of the very programs he helped negotiate back on the commissioners court: He received…
‘Turning a moment of loss into something hopeful’
Britain’s illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree is set to be transformed into a public artwork – and citizens are being…
‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money | Conservation
On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh…
Did fake comments sink SoCal clean heat rules?…
Last year, Southern California’s air regulators rejected landmark rules that would have encouraged the switch from polluting gas heaters to…
UN climate chief attacks “delusional” fossil fuel investments
Doubling down on fossil fuels in response to the spikes in oil and gas prices unleashed by the Iran war…
Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends | Environment
With stumpy, speedy legs, questing snouts and a fierce quiver of needles, hedgehogs are enchantingly strange, like fantasy creatures from…
Life rebounded shockingly fast after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth and unleashed one of the most destructive events in the…
Scientists discover giant swirling plumes hidden deep inside Greenland’s ice sheet
Far beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, scientists have identified enormous swirling structures that resemble rising plumes. These…
Sky-high oil prices are about to hit Puerto Rico’s grid
Even a marginal rise in power bills could mean hardship in Puerto Rico, where the median household income is around…