How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change

Climate change occurring shortly before their disappearance triggered a complex change in the behavior of late Neanderthals in Europe: they developed more complex tools. This is the conclusion reached by a group of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Università degli Studi die Ferrara (UNIFE) on the basis of finds in the Sesselfelsgrotte cave in Lower Bavaria.

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Climate change is threatening to create a new housing crisis in America

As climate change continues to increase the frequency and intensity of storms, and as sea level rise and coastal erosion push storm damage further inland, millions of additional American properties are at risk for catastrophic damage each year. A major report released in June shows that federal flood maps underestimate the number of homes and businesses at risk of flooding by a stunning 67%

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Meteorite study suggests Earth may have always been wet

A new study finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed — instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water. The findings published Aug. 28 in Science suggest that Earth may have always been wet.

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Fusion Power Breakthrough: New Method for Eliminating Damaging Heat Bursts in Toroidal Tokamaks

Picture an airplane that can only climb to one or two altitudes after taking off. That limitation would be similar to the plight facing scientists who seek to avoid instabilities that restrict the path to clean, safe, and abundant fusion energy in doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics (GA) have now published a breakthrough explanation of this tokamak restriction and how it may be overcome.

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5,700-year-old Neolithic house discovered by archaeologists in Cork

IRISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS have made an incredible discovery in Cork, having unearthed the foundations of a house from the Neolithic era. The ancient house is believed to be 5,700 years old, and was likely the home of a family from one of the earliest farming communities to have settled in the south of Ireland.

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California Rolls Out Tough Emissions Regulations on Ships, Big Rigs

Calling for a crackdown of two major contributors to California’s notoriously hazy air, the state is moving forward with stringent new anti-smog laws for the shipping and transportation industries. Aimed at cargo ships and heavy-duty diesel trucks, the California Air Resources Board estimates the new rules will drastically reduce air pollution and prevent over $35 billion in medical costs over the next three decades. The board cast the decision as a win for environmental justice and passed it despite the billions it will cost the industries to implement various new technologies.

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“Nectar Of The Dogs”—Busch Has Launched A Beer For Dogs

The new bone broth-based Dog Brew by Busch lets owners and pooches crack a cold one.

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This New Map Is Digitizing LGBTQ+ Travel Guides from the '60s and Beyond

A new project hopes to add context and nuance to queer travel guides of the past.

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Everything Is Unprecedented. Welcome To Your Hotter Earth

The upshot of climate change is that everyone alive is destined to experience unprecedented disasters. The most powerful hurricanes, the most intense wildfires, the most prolonged heat waves and the most frequent outbreaks of new diseases are all in our future. Records will be broken, again and again.

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Climate Change Poses a Real and Imminent Threat to Agriculture

Climate change is not a future or hypothetical problem – year after year, farmers and ranchers across the country are enduring more frequent and extreme weather events and natural disasters.

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What would Trump's re-election mean for the climate crisis?

Imagine, for a moment, that it’s 4 November and Donald J Trump has won in an unquestionable landslide to be re-elected President of the United States. Four more years of the Trump administration will no doubt be transformative for numerous pillars of American life: from the Supreme Court to access to healthcare; economic inequality to immigration.

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Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn

The Republican national convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed some conservatives who warn the party risks being left behind by voters.

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On Climate Change, We’ve Run Out of Presidential Terms to Waste

The working definition of the ongoing brain seizure that is 2020 is either that Coloradans are being told by state authorities to install smoke-resistant “safe rooms” in their houses, or that Californians now must weigh what kind of mask to wear. An N95 mask helps to filter out harmful particulates from the wildfire smoke that is overwhelming the Golden State, but many come with an exhalation valve to keep the wearer from overheating—and that valve can spread the coronavirus.

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A Band of Illegal Gold Miners Have Completely Destroyed an Ancient Kush Settlement in Sudan | artnet News

Jabal Maragha, an ancient site in Sudan dating back to the the Kingdom of Kush, has been devastated by gold diggers.

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Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades

The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm.

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Hong Kong's terracotta tile army marches to the rescue for coral

In 2018, a super-typhoon destroyed 80% of the corals in Hoi Ha Wan bay off the Sai Kung peninsula in Hong Kong. In the city’s strongest storm since records began, winds reached 155mph (250km/h) and battered the reefs, leaving behind mostly scattered debris and broken coral skeletons. A few coral species survived, but these will likely take decades to regrow to their former state.

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Worries grow following 'dramatic' drop in monarch butterfly population

Flight of the Monarch Day was held in Toronto Saturday, as well as various other locations across Canada, in an effort to raise awareness around declining monarch butterfly populations and ways to help the fluttering insects.

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The Observer view on the climate catastrophe facing Earth

Thirty years ago we were warned. Now is our last chance to listen

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Venezuela coast could take half a century to recover from oil spill, researcher says

A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said on Wednesday.

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Japan steps up renewables investment to beat 2030 target

Japan will invest more than $100bn in wind and solar generation before 2030, beating its renewables goals according to analyst firm Wood Mackenzie.

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The Atlantic Is Awash With Far More Plastic Than Previously Thought, Study Finds

A new study suggests there is far more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than scientists estimated earlier, especially tiny pieces of plastic that can end up inside fish and other animals.

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How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared

A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it.

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Atlantic microplastic 'weighs millions of tonnes'

There are 12-21 million tonnes of tiny plastic fragments floating in the ocean, scientists say.

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The climate crisis has already arrived. Just look to California’s abnormal wildfires

In the last decade, amid drought and searing heat, California has entered the ‘era of megafires’ and has become the ‘examplar for climate change extreme events today’

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2 Hurricanes Could Strike U.S. on the Same Day for the First Time in History

Two developing hurricanes may make landfall in the U.S. at the same time. "What are the odds? It has never happened before that two hurricanes made landfall on the same day," said Brent Watts, chief meteorologist at WDBJ. "A tropical storm and a hurricane made landfall at Midnight on Sep. 5, 1933. We'll see how this plays out over the next 5 days."

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An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator

A university student edited OpenStreetMap data and created a hilarious Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch

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The factory of the future, batteries not included

Everactive provides an industrial “internet of things” platform built on its battery-free sensors.

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Google Maps is getting a lot more detail

Helping show the difference between ice caps and greenery.

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Researchers Discover Novel Molecular Mechanism That Enables Conifers to Adapt to Winter

Photosynthesis in conifer forests is one of the most important carbon sinks on a global scale. Unlike broadleaf trees, conifers are evergreen and retain their photosynthesis structure throughout the year. Especially in late winter, the combination of freezing temperatures and high light intensity exposes the needles to oxidative damage that could lead to the destruction of molecules and cell structures that contribute to photosynthesis. Researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that enables spruce trees to adapt to winter.

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Extreme weather just devastated 10m acres in the midwest. Expect more of this

I know a stiff wind. They call this place Storm Lake, after all. But until recently most Iowans had never heard of a “derecho”. They have now. Last Monday, a derecho tore 770 miles from Nebraska to Indiana and left a path of destruction up to 50 miles wide over 10m acres of prime cropland. It blew 113 miles per hour at the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River.

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Tiny elephant shrew species, missing for 50 years, rediscovered

A mouse-sized elephant shrew that had been lost to science for 50 years has been discovered alive and well in the Horn of Africa. The Somali sengi mates for life, can race around at 30km/h and sucks up ants with its trunk-like nose. But it had not been documented by researchers since 1968.

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64 mayors sign letter urging Congress to extend solar tax credits

A bipartisan coalition of 64 mayors, representing 25 states across the country, joined with Environment America today to call on Congress to take action on clean energy. Specifically, the mayors have sent a letter to Congress urging members to extend solar and wind energy tax credits; expand incentives for electric vehicles and energy efficiency; and create new tax credits for energy storage projects.

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Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, potentially Earth’s highest temperature since at least 1931

If confirmed, it's the planet's highest temperature ever measured in August and third highest any time.

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Rhino Poaching Falls by More Than Half in South Africa and Namibia

Rhino poaching has decreased significantly in South Africa and Namibia. Rhino poaching in South Africa fell by 53 percent in the first six months of this year. During the first half of the year, 166 rhinos were killed across the country, compared to 316 rhinos killed in the first six months of 2019.

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New Climate Model Predicts the Arctic Would be Sea-Ice Free by 2035

An international team of researchers, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has used a cutting-edge climate modeling system, developed by U.K. Met Office's Hadley Centre to project that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.

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Coronavirus face masks: an environmental disaster that might last generations

Face coverings are now a legal requirement in many public spaces around the world. But even before they became compulsory, masks were causing litter problems on land and at sea. One February beach clean in Hong Kong found 70 masks along 100 metres of shoreline, with 30 more appearing a week later. In the Mediterranean, masks have reportedly been seen floating like jellyfish.

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US allows killing sea lions eating at-risk Northwest salmon

U.S. authorities on Friday gave wildlife managers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho permission to start killing hundreds of sea lions in the Columbia River basin in hopes of helping struggling salmon and steelhead trout.

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Grey reef sharks form long-term friendships, study reveals

Grey reef sharks work together and form social groups that can last for years, according to a study. Scientists who monitored a shark population off the remote Palmyra Atoll, to the south of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, noticed the predators formed tangled webs of social bonds.

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Nestlé sued over tonnes of dead fish in river

The fish were found in a river in north-eastern France and some 14 species have been affected.

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A Simple Change to Cafeteria Menus Could Make a Massive Difference to The Planet

We all know by now that eating less meat is good for the planet - the production of meat products for human consumption leaves behind a hefty carbon footprint.

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'This land is all we have left': tribes on edge over giant dam proposal near Grand Canyon

Developers want to build a vast hydroelectric power facility that would flood sacred lands, threaten waterways and put habitats at risk

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Scientists Found a 200,000-Year-Old Human Bed Made From Grass and Ash

Archaeologists from South Africa have uncovered rudimentary beds that early humans made by placing bundles of grass onto a layer of ash. Sounds basic, but these Stone Age beds were more sophisticated than they appear at first glance.

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Golden eagles breeding success at Highlands estate

Golden eagles have bred at a "rewilding" estate in the Scottish Highlands for the first time in 40 years. An eagle pair successfully reared the chick at an artificial eyrie on the 10,000-acre Trees for Life Dundreggan estate. This positive news came as it emerged that a young tagged gold eagle known as Tom has gone missing in Perthshire.

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'Extinct' large blue butterfly successfully reintroduced to UK

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time in 150 years. Around 750 large blue butterflies, recognizable by the distinct row of black spots on its upper forewing, emerged this summer in Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire, southwest England, after experts released 1,100 larvae to the site last year.

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Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often - Eos

New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

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Last decade was Earth's hottest on record, exposing grim reality of climate change

A new report released Wednesday details how 2019 was another year of extremes for Earth's climate, adding to a litany of evidence exposing the grim reality of our warming world.

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Air pollution is much worse than we thought

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Highly efficient process makes seawater drinkable in 30 minutes

Access to clean, safe drinking water is a necessity that’s worryingly not being met in many parts of the world. A new study has used a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) to filter pollutants out of seawater, generating large amounts of fresh water per day while using much less energy than other methods.

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Kenya's elephant numbers double over three decades

Kenya's elephant population has more than doubled from 1989 to today, its wildlife service announced at an event marking World Elephant Day. Tourism Minister Najib Balala said authorities have "managed to tame poaching."

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Scientists devised a cheap, ingenious trick to save this bird from a blood-sucking maggot – and it works brilliantly

The moment a chick hatches from its egg, maggots burrow into its skin to drink its blood, usually killing it. But scientists have found a way to stop the blood-sucking parasites.

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