Toyota Actively Lobbying To Slow Down EV Revolution

Toyota seems to be doing everything possible to become known as one of the most despicable corporations on the face of the Earth. Last month it was revealed that it was the largest corporate contributor to members of Congress who voted against certifying the result of the last election.

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Cutting Carbon Pollution Quickly Would Save Millions of Lives, Study Finds

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly would save tens of millions of lives worldwide, a new study finds. It's the latest indication that climate change is deadly to humans, and that the benefits of transitioning to a cleaner economy could be profound.

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The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing

I think that if the public knew what was being done to the Yellowstone herd, people might demand a change in policy.

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Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens

The global economy's business-as-usual approach to climate change has seen Earth's "vital signs" deteriorate to record levels, an influential group of scientists said Wednesday, warning that several climate tipping points were now imminent.

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Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say

A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.

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The 'world's most powerful tidal turbine' starts to export power to the grid

The O2 turbine weighs 680 metric tons and has a length of 74 meters.

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As climate change worsens, extreme weather disasters pile up

From record rainfall inundating cities around the world to wildfires scorching an unprecedented area to deadly heat waves that have come with unrelenting regularity this summer, extreme weather linked to climate change is unfolding with frightening clarity.

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Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?

The climate crisis is no longer a looming threat – people are now living with the consequences of centuries of greenhouse gas emissions. But there is still everything to fight for. How the world chooses to respond in the coming years will have massive repercussions for generations yet to be born.

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Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering

Yale researchers observing the brains of closed-eyed baby mice found waves that help explain why mammals can navigate their environment so soon after birth.

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Feds to consider protections for Southeast Alaska's wolves

Federal wildlife authorities have agreed to further study a petition in support of additional protections for Southeast Alaska’s wolf population. The decision is likely to rekindle a decades-old debate between conservationists and hunters.

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Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought

Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought. They found that the carbon drawn into Earth's interior at subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide and dive into Earth's interior—tends to stay locked away at depth, rather than resurfacing in the form of volcanic emissions.

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Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children

Dogs tend to ignore suggestions from people who are lying, hinting that – unlike human infants and some other primates – they might recognise when a person is being deceptive

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The cost of cooling: how air conditioning is heating up the world

As temperatures rise, a new book delves into the environmental toll of America’s favorite way to cool off

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The jaw-droppingly high, out-of-this-world carbon footprint of space tourism

The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On July 11, Branson ascended 80 km (49 miles) to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane, while Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket launched today on July 20, coinciding with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Although Bezos launched later than Branson, he set out to reach higher altitudes — about 120 km, or 74 miles.

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One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study

A new study lays to rest the tired argument that electric vehicles aren’t much cleaner than internal combustion vehicles. Over the life cycle of an EV — from digging up the materials needed to build it to eventually laying the car to rest — it will release fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a gas-powered car, the research found. That holds true globally, whether an EV plugs into a grid in Europe with a larger share of renewables, or a grid in India that still relies heavily on coal.

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Space tourism: Rockets emit 100 times more CO2 per passenger than flights, imagine a whole industry - Times of India

Science News: In order for international regulators to keep up with this nascent industry and control its pollution properly, scientists need a better understanding

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AI breakthrough will 'transform' biology

Artificial intelligence has been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. Proteins are essential building blocks of living organisms; every cell we have in us is packed with them. Understanding protein structures is critical for advancing medicine, but until now, only a fraction of these have been worked out.

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Wildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that rarely burned before

Yakuts in Russian Siberia is known as the world's coldest city. In a place where even an exposed nose during the winter months can cause biting pain, people are accustomed to taking precautions against freezing temperatures, including spending extra time in the morning to dress in many layers.

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Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class

Some of the wealthiest companies in the world are investing in the green economy. But they’re not investing in paying union wages.

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Climate crisis: 50 photos of extreme weather around the world – in pictures

As temperatures rise and pollution increases, wildfires, floods and extreme winds have battered many parts of the world in the last six months

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China unveils design for first waterless nuclear reactor

A team of government researchers in China have unveiled the design for a commercial nuclear reactor that is expected to be the first in the world that does not need water for cooling, allowing the systems to be built in remote desert regions to provide power for more densely populated areas.

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Global meat industry ‘using tobacco company tactics’ to downplay role in driving climate crisis, investigation claims

Exclusive: Meat companies are routinely underreporting emissions, undermining climate science and casting doubt on plant-based alternatives, an investigation claims.

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What Climate Scientists Are Saying About This Catastrophic Summer

By all accounts, the climate crisis is already here. Deadly heat domes across the Pacific Northwest, a petroleum pipeline leak in the middle of the ocean that set the Gulf of Mexico on fire, and the deadly floods in Germany and Belgium in the past few weeks alone have proved that the world is changing in response to how we have changed it.

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Advanced New Artificial Intelligence Software Can Compute Protein Structures in 10 Minutes

Accurate protein structure prediction now accessible to all. Scientists have waited months for access to highly accurate protein structure prediction since DeepMind presented remarkable progress in this area at the 2020 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, or CASP14, conference. The wait

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This Forest School Will Be Built in India With an Infinity Cycling Track on Its Roof

In India, the city of Pune, three hours by road from Mumbai, is densely populated and has seen substantial urban growth in the last decade. This has led to worsening air quality as the level of pollutants now regularly exceeds World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.

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BBC - Life In Cold Blood | The Cold Blooded Truth

Narrated by David Attenborough.

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What is causing the floods in Europe?

Scientists believe climate disruption will bring more extreme weather, and humans are making things worse

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Jumping Spiders Seem to Have a Cognitive Ability Only Previously Found in Vertebrates

Tiny little jumping spiders, with their magnificent eyes, seem to be able to do something we'd only ever seen before in vertebrates: distinguishing between animate and inanimate objects.

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Greenland suspends all oil exploration in its territory | CBC News

The government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world's largest island, calling it "a natural step" because the Arctic government "takes the climate crisis seriously."

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Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval

"Everyone was wrong, and that makes these results even more exciting."

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'Cooked to Death': Heatwave Probably Killed More Than a Billion Marine Animals on Canada’s Coast

More than a billion marine animals along Canada’s Pacific coast may have died last week as a result of the record-breaking temperatures in British Columbia. The unprecedented heat wave that hit western Canada and the north-western U.S. saw temperatures soar to record highs in late June and early July, killing as many as 500 people and triggering hundreds of wildfires, mainly in British Columbia.

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Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer

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Football-sized goldfish take over lake after decades of people dumping unwanted pet fish

‘They grow bigger than you think and contribute to poor water quality by mucking up the bottom sediments and uprooting plants,’ warns Minnesota town

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US west and Canada brace for another heatwave amid almost 70 wildfires

The fourth searing heatwave in five weeks is set to strike the west of the United States and Canada this weekend, aggravating wildfires that are already ravaging an area larger than Rhode Island as drought and record-breaking temperatures tied to the climate crisis pummel the region.

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Wolves Raised by Humans Can’t Understand People like Dogs Can

You and your dog no doubt have a special bond. But it’s deeper than all those scraps from the table or trips to the dog park. Something far in the shared evolutionary past of dogs and humans has linked the two species, making our canine companions especially good at understanding when we want to help or communicate with them.

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Why TV Is So Bad at Covering Climate Change

It's stupidly hard to get TV to pay attention to the most important story of our lifetime.

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Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don’t

Puppies outpace wolf pups at engaging with humans, even with less exposure to people, supporting the idea that domestication has wired dogs’ brains.

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Pesticide caused kids' brain damage, California lawsuits say

Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children.

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Trees are dying of thirst in the Western drought

Here’s what’s going on inside their veins

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This farm relies on birds — not pesticides — to control pests

Dennis Tamura never set out to be a bird-watcher. He’s been a farmer for over 35 years, and he and his wife grow organic vegetables and flowers on Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville. But birds have become a part of the farm’s ecosystem. About 15 years ago, a bird-loving neighbor put up small wooden bird boxes on the fence posts that line Blue Heron Farms, and Tamura just started noticing the tree swallows and Western bluebirds that came to visit. Today, he points out a fluffy baby tree swallow, its comically large yellow mouth peeking out of a hole in the box.

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UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate by factor of 10

Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss.

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Giant pandas no longer classed as endangered after population growth

Now that the number of pandas in the wild has reached 1,800, Chinese officials have reclassified them as "vulnerable."

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Why it matters that climate change is shrinking birds

Bird populations have declined so drastically that this year, there are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than there were in 1970.

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China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.

Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.

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Dragonflies are losing their wing color because of climate change, study shows

Researchers worry that female dragonflies may no longer recognize their male counterparts.

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Your Beauty Habit Is Destroying the Environment

These makeup artists and influencers want the cosmetics industry to start changing before we're buried in tonnes of plastic.

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Opinion: Climate change is about greed. It's time for big oil to pay us back

Jeffrey Sachs writes that America still has a chance to save itself from the dangers of climate change. President Joe Biden's plans to build a new 21st-century infrastructure based on renewable energy, electric vehicles, and other zero-carbon technologies is on the right course -- provided the nation can overcome corporate greed and a broken political system.

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California battles wildfire as blazing heat hits western US

‘Record-breaking heat’ is expected to affect much of the west and southwest US over the weekend, weather centre warns.

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Nights are warming faster than days in the U.S. because of climate change

Nights on average are heating up faster than days in most parts of the United States — a trend caused by climate change, according to the 2018 National Climate Assessment Report, newly cited by the New York Times.Why it matters: Last month was the hottest June on record for the U.S., and more than 1,500 areas of the country logged new record-high overnight temperatures toward the end of the month.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.Abnormally high nighttime

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We Are Not Ready

On the climate crisis and other hyperobjects

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