TOI-2094
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Palisades Fire Recovery Tests L.A.’s Ability to Invest in Resilience
Palisades fire victims want to raise money for disaster hardening. Their idea could be a model — if it can get past L.A.’s most vexing housing problems.
China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War
As countries scramble to secure oil, gas and fertilizer, China’s bets on clean energy and coal are cushioning its dependence on oil and gas imports. By Nicholas Kusnetz, Georgina Gustin When Gary Dirks arrived in China in 1995, the country’s…
Oil patch appears after IRIS Dena sinking in Sri Lanka; origins still unverified
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka — On Saturday, March 7, three days after the Iranian warship IRIS Dena was torpedoed by a U.S Navy submarine close to the southern coast off Galle in Sri Lanka, fishers and coastal communities noticed a thick…
‘We Live in One Ocean’: Native Hawaiian Activist Calls for Inclusion in Deep-Sea Mining Decisions
As policymakers meet in Jamaica to develop regulations for mineral exploitation in international waters, Solomon Pili Kahoʻohalahala highlights what’s at stake for Pacific cultures. By Teresa Tomassoni This week, delegates from around the world gathered at the International Seabed Authority’s…
How the humble hornwort could supercharge agriculture
You are here because of a single, all-important enzyme. But don’t look inward to find ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, known more mercifully among scientists as rubisco. Instead, look to the food you eat and the trees that manufacture oxygen, as this is…
Week in wildlife: a wet macaque, four little pigs and a stowaway fox
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading…
UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation These are burning, smoking lies. As oil and gas prices soar, thanks to the US and Israel’s…
Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?
While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans As soon as the barrier broke, a flood of poison brought death to the river. Gushing…
Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds
Exclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods are off-limits to the public, buried government documents show. The study by Forest Research, which is a…