Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

Trump’s EPA reapproves contentious weedkiller dicamba for some GM crops

Environmental groups said dicamba drift has damaged vegetable farms, trees and other critical plants The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weedkiller dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over…

Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just…

Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown

Exclusive: Ministers to act after last year’s legislation ‘outwitted’ by failing firms paying millions to executives The government is to close loopholes which allow bosses of failing water companies to continue to receive large bonuses despite a ban passed last…

A First Look Below Antarctica’s Most Menacing Glacier

Scientists on the Thwaites Glacier attempted to install equipment beneath the ice to better understand how it is melting. Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong walks us through their landmark experiment and the bittersweet outcome.