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Aerial footage shows thick plumes of smoke from wildfires raging in the northern Spanish region of Asturias. Wildfires have burned more than a million hectares (2.5m acres) of land in the European Union this year so far, the highest amount…
In the last year, Bangladesh has seen an about-turn from occupying forest land in the name of development activities such as constructing ecotourism parks, football academies, residential and training facilities for government officials. The recently canceled sum of about 3,830…
Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood.
Introduction to the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE 101) August 27, 2025 A Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) (Image credit: NOAA/B-WET/NAAEE) Download Image This course is made up of three lessons: 1. Why MWEEs? 2. What Makes a MWEE? 3.…
A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform…
Built for a cooler climate, many homes need to be retrofitted for warming temperatures. It won’t be as simple as installing air-conditioning.
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a…
T1 Energy of Texas is among the companies that aim to build supply chains for the renewable energy source in this country and reduce dependence on Asian producers. By Dan Gearino, Arcelia Martin Companies that make solar power components in…
Thinktank predicts wider inequality gap and calls for revised policies to tackle flying and excess private car use Inequality in transport emissions between the richest and the poorest in the UK is set to widen dramatically over the next decade,…
It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad that some doubted…