Fires burned through Minnesota this summer. It may be a sign of more to come. By Susan Cosier On the night of July 6, a storm moved over northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The boreal forest there, composed of species…
To meet surging electricity demand, Iowa utilities are increasingly turning to polluting coal plants that had been operating well below capacity. By Anika Jane Beamer Before Iowa was the nation’s most wind-powered state, it generated nearly all of…
Print article Share All the ambulance services in England experienced some of their busiest-ever days during this summer’s record-breaking June heatwave, according to data obtained by Carbon Brief. In June, temperatures climbed past 37C in parts of…
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned…
Langstone, Hampshire: My garden is full of Victoria plums, but they’re not supposed to be crunchy inside This summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature…
There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing Imagining the future as almost entirely bleak has somehow crept into the collective consciousness this…
On Wajarri Yamaji country in WA’s remote mid-west sits Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO’s Murchison radio-astronomy observatory. This year’s early winter rains have left the telescopes surrounded by a carpet of splendid native blooms Continue…
A charity in Powys provides the land while growers do the hard work, producing bumper crops for city children Kilos and kilos of courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes and salad leaves are ripe and ready for picking on a small Welsh farm in the rural…
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally I have to confess that I rarely enjoy birding in montane cloud forests. The birds that…
When pesticide proved no match for the insect, desperate Phyllis Nvuda tried a new way to save her infested orchard For two decades, Phyllis Nduva, 72, has grown mangoes and citrus in Wote, a town in Kenya’s eastern Makueni County. In the…
Rep. Mack Butler thought he had a deal with leading senators to keep the heart of reform legislation unanimously passed by the House. He was wrong. By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth Wired for Profit: Seventh in a series about Alabama Power’s…
A bill that would have capped Alabama Power’s profits and forced the company to undergo formal rate case hearings for the first time in four decades passed the Alabama House 104-0. Then the Senate stepped in. By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth Wired…
A strong El Niño is raising the odds of an active winter storm season—and the Floridians most likely to die in a tornado live in aging manufactured homes the state can’t even count. By Kate Waxman On the night of Feb. 22, 1998, tornadoes tore…
The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I…
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