The U.S. passed a historic climate deal this year — here's a recap of what's in the bill

The Biden administration this year signed a historic climate and tax deal that will funnel billions of dollars into programs designed to speed the country’s clean energy transition and battle climate change. As the U.S. this year grappled with climate-related disasters from Hurricane Ian in Florida to the Mosquito Fire in California, the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains $369 billion in climate provisions, was a monumental development to mitigate the effects of climate change across the country.

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Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment

Coiffeurs across Belgium are sweeping up and bagging hair clipped from their customers, and then handing it over to an NGO that recycles it to protect the environment.

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Release of 10 quolls boosts ‘insurance’ population of endangered marsupial

The animals were released into Aussie Ark’s 400-hectare Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary

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McChicken vs. Big Mac: Could environmental labels transform American burger culture?

Climate-related food labeling may be an effective tool to whittle down the beef industry’s carbon footprint, new research argues.

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At least 50 people have died across the U.S. in 'once-in-a-generation storm'

More than half the deaths occurred in western New York, which struggled with super-size snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles. Buffalo's responders rescued hundreds trapped in cars.

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The Dinosaurs Didn't Go Extinct in a Day (They Didn't Go Extinct At All...)

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BP criticised over plan to spend billions more on fossil fuels than green energy

BP has been accused of prioritising fossil fuels over green energy as it plans to spend as much as double the amount on oil and gas projects than on renewable investments next year. The FTSE 100 company has earmarked up to $7.5bn (£6.2bn) for oil and gas projects, compared with a range of $3bn to $5bn for green energy.

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They’re one of Earth’s rarest reptiles. But these crocodiles are bouncing back.

Siamese crocodiles were almost hunted to extinction. Now, efforts to reintroduce the species may be Cambodia’s most successful conservation story.

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Glass act: Scientists reveal secrets of frog transparency

WASHINGTON (AP) — Now you see them, now you don’t. Some frogs found in South and Central America have the rare ability to turn on and off their nearly transparent appearance, researchers report Thursday in the journal Science .

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This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

Switching off fossil fuels is going to be a bumpy ride — an energy disruption.

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The Arctic and Antarctic saw record warmth and ice melt in 2022

The sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest area ever recorded in early 2022, and there were exceptionally high temperatures at both poles

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How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy, and what to watch for in 2023

The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is looking bleak. Russia’s war on Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain and fertilizer feedstock suppliers, tightened global food and energy supplies, which in turn helped spur inflation.

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El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared

Global heating will set the stage for extreme weather everywhere in 2023. The consequences are likely to be cataclysmic.

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Tiny, 'beautiful' endangered turtle hatchlings spotted in the wild for first time in four years

For the first time since surveying for the endangered Australian freshwater turtle species began in 2019, Manning River turtle hatchlings about the size of a 20-cent coin are spotted in the wild.

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Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards ‘popsicle-like’ grasses

As the Arctic warms, concern for the plight of Santa’s favourite sleigh pullers is mounting. But in one small corner of the far flung north – Svalbard – Rudolph and his friends are thriving. Warmer temperatures are boosting plant growth and giving Svalbard reindeer more time to build up fat reserves; they also appear to be shifting their diets towards “popsicle-like” grasses that poke up through the ice and snow, data suggests.

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Death toll rises in Buffalo as frigid cold freezes eastern U.S. on Christmas Day

A deadly blizzard pummeled Buffalo, New York, on Christmas Day, trapping people in their cars, causing power outages and raising the death toll from a severe winter storm system that swept the United States. Twenty-eight people have died so far in weather-related incidents, according to an NBC News tally. CNN reported 26 deaths Sunday morning.

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Green electronics rely on materials that grow on trees

Compounds derived from eucalyptus and other plants are formulated into an ink for printing electronic components.

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New Battery Made From Common Elements Offers Four Days Of Power

A company soon to settle in West Virginia has developed a battery that offers four days of full discharge using some of the cheapest, most available elements on earth. “They are now building and will soon deliver a next generation battery. It's based on iron, water and oxygen. You couldn't imagine a simpler supply chain,” said George Crabtree, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and leader of the national labs’ efforts to develop next-generation batteries.

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This Christmas, make sure your chocolate does not harm the planet

Our insatiable demand for chocolate is destroying forests.

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Researchers discover secret of building a better wildlife overpass

A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to cross.

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Flexibility is key to building a carbon neutral power system

To manage future electricity demand in line with the EU's Energy Roadmap 2050, power grids need to rely on both supply and demand flexibility and be structured as a system of systems.

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Canada's Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms Arctic

Canada's Western Hudson Bay polar bear population has fallen 27% in just five years, according to a government report released this week, suggesting climate change is impacting the animals.

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Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its industry-wide carbon capture proposal

ExxonMobil has been the prime target of activists and politicians angered by the oil industry’s efforts to block action on climate change. Now, newly disclosed documents confirm that the oil company’s reputational woes have extended into the industry itself and threatened to derail Exxon’s biggest climate proposal to date.

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Is Honey Vegan? Everything You Need to Know About Why Bees Make Honey

Is honey vegan? It tends to be a sticky subject. Here’s what you need to know about why bees make honey and whether or not it’s ethical to eat.

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AP photos of climate change around the world in 2022

AP Climate Photos

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All 32 fighting roosters rescued in Austin have found new homes

About 30 roosters rescued from cockfighting last month have evaded euthanasia and found new homes, Austin Pets Alive announced Wednesday. The nonprofit animal rescue has been trying to find sanctuaries for these fighting roosters over the last few weeks. The roosters were scheduled to be euthanized Wednesday, but homes were found for them in time.

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Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse

New research finds nearly 30% of land animals could disappear form their local area by 2100 due to climate change and habitat destruction. This is more than double previous predictions.

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Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 people a year

Inadequate numbers of bees and other pollinators have a huge impact on human health due to lower production of fruit and vegetables, according to a modelling study

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'Super' mosquitoes have now mutated to withstand insecticides, scientists say

One of the most vilified pest species on the planet continues to outsmart the ways in which humans attempt to get rid of them. "Super" mosquitoes have evolved to withstand insecticides, according to new research -- and the most "sobering" finding is the high rate in which a species known for carrying disease has developed mutations.

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Fossil Fuel Villain of the Year: Shell CEO Ben van Beurden

Natural gas causes methane emissions. Ben can’t handle hearing that, apparently.

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Activists Face 10 Years In Prison After Rescuing 18 Beagle Puppies From Animal Testing Facility

Animal Rebellion is urging the public to take action after it rescued beagle puppies from an MBR Acres animal testing breeding facility in Cambridgeshire in the UK. It freed 18 in total, but two more – named Love and Libby – were seized by the police. The group has set up an online petition calling for the animals to be released to a sanctuary.

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Ancient Humans May Have Sailed The Mediterranean 450,000 Years Ago

Archaic humans may have worked out how to sail across the sea to new lands as far back as nearly half a million years ago.

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10 states have now banned the sale of cosmetics tested on animals

New York became the tenth state to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a measure into law Thursday evening.

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IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision

The IEA has raised its global forecast for renewables growth in what it calls its “largest ever upward revision” for the sector.

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Athens’ Unseen Museum Welcomes Special Dog Exhibit

The National Archaeological Museum’s Unseen Museum welcomes a 3rd-century AD funerary monument dedicated to a pet dog.

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European Union reaches agreement on pivotal carbon market deal

European Union negotiators reached agreement early on Sunday on overhauling the bloc’s carbon market, the bloc’s main policy tool for fighting global warming, the Czech EU presidency and the European Council said.

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Nuclear fusion breakthrough: What does it mean for space exploration?

Some scientists say nuclear fusion propulsion is inevitable. But how far away is it, given recent breakthroughs?

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Dog protects young girls for hours after getting lost in woods

When Abigail and Cecilia Bourg went missing at the end of November in the woods behind their home, their parents were frantic. Now, Artemis, the Bourg family dog, is being hailed a hero. "I just start like running around the whole property — six acres — and that's when I called [my husband] and said, 'They're gone,'" Mary Bourg said.

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Aboriginal people have spent centuries building in the Darling River. Now there are plans to demolish these important structures

Indigenous engineering and care for Country points to a better way to manage the Baaka.

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It’s time to talk about eating less meat and dairy, ministers SNP told

A GREENS MSP has called on her colleagues in government to have a “conversation” with the public about eating less meat and dairy after progress on hitting climate targets stalled. SNP ministers have been told to target the move by their top climate advisers. Under the Scottish Government’s vision, the country will legally become net zero by 2050, while 1990 levels of emissions will be cut by 75 per cent by 2030.

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A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion

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Seawater-to-Hydrogen Tech Makes a New, Blue H2

Using renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is considered by experts the cleanest route to producing hydrogen fuel. But we live in a world where clean water is a precious commodity to which a third of the world lacks easy access. Researchers in China have now made a device that can directly split seawater to make hydrogen fuel.

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New Skyscraper-Size Pig Farm Is a Mind-Blowing 26 Stories High

The biggest single-building pig farm in the world speaks to the dystopian nightmare that is animal agriculture.

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Sea salt batteries could be a cheap, green alternative to lithium

Lithium - the main component in most electric batteries - can be costly to mine. But researchers have made a breakthrough with alternative ‘molten salt’ batteries.

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Single-use plastic items to be banned in England — reports

Cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups reportedly set to be banned in England after a consultation

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Record low water levels on the Mississippi River in 2022 show how climate change is altering large rivers

Rivers are critical corridors that connect cities and ecosystems alike. When drought develops, water levels fall, making river navigation harder and more expensive. In 2022, water levels in some of the world’s largest rivers, including the Rhine in Europe and the Yangtze in China, fell to historically low levels. The Mississippi River fell so low in Memphis, Tennessee, in mid-October that barges were unable to float, requiring dredging and special water releases from upstream reservoirs to keep channels navigable.

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Scientists invent ‘game-changing’ battery that never loses charge capacity

Solid-state batteries heralded as the ‘next big thing’ for electric vehicles by top BMW engineer

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Bushwalkers accidentally discover Australia's first known bioluminescent millipedes

Scott Kemp first saw glow-in-the-dark millipedes in the Illawarra 18 years ago, but he had no idea he was making a significant scientific discovery.

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Gene-edited hens may end cull of billions of chicks

Israeli researchers say they have developed gene-edited hens that lay eggs from which only female chicks hatch. The breakthrough could prevent the slaughter of billions of male chickens each year, which are culled because they don't lay eggs. The female chicks, and the eggs they lay when they mature, have no trace of the original genetic alteration

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New European satellite will better predict violent storms

A new European satellite launches on Tuesday that will greatly enhance forecasting of sudden, violent storms so that we can better prepare for them. An Ariane rocket will lift the Meteosat-12 weather satellite into the sky to watch over the European continent, the Middle East and Africa.

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