Biofuels may not be as green as we've been told

Biofuels have long been touted as the more environmentally-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. But this may not be true according to various studies.

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One way to combat Russia? Move faster on clean energy

When a geopolitical crisis sent gasoline prices skyrocketing four decades ago, President Carter called on Americans to achieve “energy independence” from Middle Eastern oil exporters. He installed solar panels on the White House, donned a cardigan sweater to stay warm and took steps to boost domestic oil production.

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Moth that causes rash is spreading due to warming temperatures, scientists find

The browntail moth is a scourge in America's most forested state, where it defoliates trees and causes a rash in humans that resembles poison ivy.

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Ukraine’s invasion underscores Europe’s deep reliance on Russian fossil fuels

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine spooked energy markets this week, amid fears that the escalating conflict and ensuing sanctions could disrupt global fossil-fuel supplies. Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum, natural gas, and coal, so any actions that curtail exports could have global ripple effects, pushing up prices and slowing economic growth. Western Europe is particularly vulnerable because it’s heavily dependent on Russia’s fossil fuels, despite determined efforts to switch to cleaner energy sources in recent years.

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Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to eavesdrop on whales

Roughly a decade ago, a team of biologists glued audio recording devices onto the backs of a handful of elephant seals on the California coast. They wanted to know if the seals — identified as males by their cartoonish faces with trunk-like noses — make noises as they swim out to sea in search of food.

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Plastic summit could be most important green deal since Paris accords, says UN

World leaders will come together online and in Nairobi, Kenya, next week, in what is described as a “critical moment” in progress towards the first ever global treaty to combat plastic waste. Inger Andersen, director of the UN Environment Programme, said an agreement at the UN environment assembly could be the most important multilateral pact since the Paris climate accord in 2015.

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Canadian oil company illegally bulldozes protected land in Africa

Farms, water, and endangered wildlife are threatened as ReconAfrica expands its operations despite violations.

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Hard-To-Recycle Plastics Are Now Being Made Into Zero Waste “Concrete” Blocks

Though we try our best to recycle the single-use plastic items we use daily, there are some plastics that take a lot more effort to reuse than just tossing them into the recycle bin. And because extra effort is needed, those plastics often end up in landfills. But one company is hoping to change the fate of hard-to-recycle plastic for good.

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Government climate advisers say cut fossil fuels to lower energy bills

The best way to ease consumers' pain from high energy prices is to stop using fossil fuels rather than drill for more of them, the government's climate advisers say. Some Tory MPs want the government to expand production of shale and North Sea gas, saying it would lower bills. But advisers said UK-produced gas would be sold internationally and barely reduce the consumer price.

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Magpies Just Wanna Have Fun - Richard and Pip Playing

This will make you smile.

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75% of people want single-use plastics banned, global survey finds

Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution.

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Warm Waters Are Causing The Earth To Dim

New research tracking the albedo of our planet—its ability to reflect sunlight—has revealed that a complex interplay of periodical weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean affects our overall cloud cover, especially in the sky west of the Americas. This in turn has a large impact on the amount of light absorbed rather than reflected from the Earth.

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The world is throwing away 3 million face masks every minute — and the growing mountain of waste is a toxic time bomb

Disposable masks are poisoning the world's drinking water with cancer-causing particles. And governments are ignoring the obvious solution.

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How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

How countries like India can have economic growth and cleaner air.

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Missing dog Zoey reunited with owners after 12 years

Zoey went missing in 2010 when her owners went shopping but she was identified by her microchip.

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How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future

The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace. When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took place outdoors. The athletes relied on natural snow for ski runs and freezing temperatures for ice rinks.

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Why the Dutch embrace floating homes

Faced with worsening floods and a shortage of housing, the Netherlands is seeing growing interest in floating homes.

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Hotter, Drier Nights Mean More Runaway Fires

Nighttime fires have become more intense in recent decades, as hot, dry nights are more commonplace, according to a new CIRES Earth Lab-led study. Forty years ago, cool, moist nights regularly provided relief to firefighters—and “flammable nights” were rare. Now, due to a changing climate, nights are warming faster than days are, and there are 11 more flammable nights every year in the U.S. West—a 45 percent spike, the team found.

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How to prevent the planet from becoming an uninhabitable desert

Deserts across the world are rapidly expanding as more and more soils dry out and lose their fertility. How can we breathe life back into desolate sandy landscapes and green the desert? Here are four ideas.

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Exclusive: Experts say the term 'drought' may be insufficient to capture what is happening in the West

As the American West continues into its 22nd year of a parching megadrought, officials at the federal government's top water resource management agency are trying to plan for an uncertain and unprecedented time for the nation's largest reservoirs.

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A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible

Scientists working in the UK announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.

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Nearly half of bald eagles tested across US show signs of chronic lead exposure

America’s national bird is more beleaguered than previously believed, with nearly half of bald eagles tested across the US showing signs of chronic lead exposure, according to a study published Thursday.

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What is the ‘social cost of carbon’?

The Biden administration has been trying to finalize a new ‘social cost of carbon.’ Two energy experts break down what that means and how that cost can fluctuate.

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World-first research confirms Australia's forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion

Indigenous fire management holds the key to a safer, more sustainable future on our flammable continent.

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Climate Crisis Has Made Western US Megadrought Worst in 1,200 Years

"Climate change is here and now," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "If a 1,200 year mega-drought isn't enough to make people realize that, I don't know what is."

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Elon Musk’s brain chip company, Neuralink, faces animal abuse claims

An animal welfare group alleges that monkey test subjects endured ‘crude surgeries’ and ‘extreme suffering’

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What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 10-12 inches more by midcentury with frequent coastal flooding

A sea level scientist explains the two main ways climate change is threatening the coasts.

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Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts

Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

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The Oldest Tree in the World | Trees Atlanta

The Oldest Tree in the World by Summer Price We all know trees can live really long lives. It’s no surprise that they typically live longer than humans and everything else on the planet. Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species...

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West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years

Monday's study says the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario officials and scientists worried about in the 1900s. The drought deepened so much in 2021 that it is 5 percent worse than the old record in the late 1500s.

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The wonder of wetlands: the secret weapon in the battle against climate change

Salt marshes can store carbon from the atmosphere fifty times faster than a tropical forest. The Climate Now team visit the Venice Lagoon to see how scientists are protecting these special environments to help tackle climate change. #ClimateNow

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How America Saved Millions of Dogs—By Moving Them

How adoptable animals became a cultural phenomenon in their own right, and a key part of a transformation of companion-animal welfare.

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Coal mines transformed society. Now, their flooded remains could heat the homes of the future

The ramifications of the Industrial Revolution, which had its roots in 18th-century Britain, were huge. Britain’s abundance of coal — as well as the ease with which it could be accessed — was a crucial ingredient in this historical turning point, powering the steam engines which helped drive society’s transformation.

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Chevrotain: The 12 Inch Ungulate

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As prices soar, Congress keeps giving ranchers a sweetheart deal

Inflation may be at a 40-year high, but the cost of grazing livestock on public lands is lower today than it was 40 years ago. Last week, the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service announced the latest federal rate: just $1.35. Adjusted for inflation, ranchers paid more than five times as much in 1981.

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The Olympics' artificial snow requires the equivalent of a day's worth of drinking water for 900 million people. Experts say it's the unfortunate future of winter sports.

When it comes to hosting the Winter Olympics, Beijing has a major problem: no snow. So in 2018, the Chinese capital recruited an army of machines — 100 snow generators and 300 snow guns — to fill its arid mountainsides with fake snow for the world's top athletes. This solution isn't unique to Beijing. The snow for the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, was 80% artificial, and Pyeongchang's snow in 2018 was more than 90% synthetic.

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Top companies like Amazon and Google pledged to fight climate change. Are they doing it?

Companies including Apple, Walmart and Amazon made ambitious public pledges to fight climate change. Some are falling short of their goals.

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Koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline

No recovery plan for the Australian marsupial was in place despite it being identified as a requirement nine years ago

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Brainy birds may fare better under climate change

Many North American migratory birds are shrinking in size as temperatures have warmed over the past 40 years. But those with very big brains, relative to their body size, did not shrink as much as smaller-brained birds, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis. The study is the first to identify a direct link between cognition and animal response to human-made climate change.

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Empty ‘ghost flights’ may be burning as much fuel as 1.4 million cars

As the summer season approaches, airlines could be forced to make thousands more of these empty flights at a high cost to the planet.

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Everest’s highest glacier has lost 2,000 years of ice in 30 years

The surprising finding that Earth’s highest ice may be gone in decades is “a real wake-up call.” Climate change has arrived decisively at the roof of the world on Mount Everest: The highest glacier on the highest mountain on Earth is losing decades worth of ice every year, according to a new study by researchers who extracted an ice core from the glacier.

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Italy makes protecting environment part of Constitution

The Italian parliament approved a law on Tuesday making protection of the environment part of the Constitution in a vote politicians and activists hailed as significant for the country's future.

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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

A lab in Oxfordshire takes a big step towards harnessing the energy source of the stars.

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Earth's core is neither solid iron, nor liquid. It's a whole lot weirder

We've known for a while that Earth's deepest depths, its "solid iron" inner core, isn't made of pure iron — and now scientists say it might not be solid either.

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US poultry giant Tyson using land ‘twice the size of New Jersey’ for animal feed, study says

Tyson Foods utilizes between nine and 10m acres of farmland – an area almost twice the size of New Jersey – to produce corn and soybeans to feed the more than 2 billion animals it processes every year in the US alone, according to new research.

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The Dog Aging Project Will Study Longevity in 60,000 Pups

Our furry friends are about to fetch new answers to the tough problem of longevity. The Dog Aging Project (DAP), launched in 2018, is recruiting tens of thousands of loyal canine companions for a comprehensive study. The open-sourced collaborative project, expected to last ten years, has ambitious goals: tackle the thorny problem of what contributes to aging, and test ways to prolong healthy longevity.

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Urban air pollution affects 2.5 billion people worldwide, study says

The researchers attributed 1.8 million deaths in 2019 to these unhealthy levels of urban air pollution, primarily in the form of tiny particulate matter (PM2.5) -- microscopic liquid droplets or solid particles in the air that are inhalable.

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‘Jackass Forever’ Stunts Outrage PETA, Calls For Criminal Investigation Of Cruelty To Animals

Paramount’s new Jackass Forever film has drawn condemnation from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which called for a criminal investigation into the production. The film was relea…

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The rascal

And who is the rascal here?

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World's biggest companies accused of exaggerating their climate actions

The climate pledges of the world’s largest companies plan to reduce absolute carbon emissions by just 40% on average, not 100% as suggested by their net-zero claims, according to a study of 25 corporations. The analysis, published Monday by non-profit organizations NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch, found the headline climate pledges of most major multinational firms cannot be taken at face value.

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