Climate and the A.I. Revolution
Will the boom in A.I. drive up greenhouse gas emissions? At the Climate Forward live event, the chief sustainability officers at Google and Microsoft discuss their companies’ net-zero ambitions.
Environment & Sustainability
Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.
Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China
The BR-364 federal highway triggered one of the largest deforestation drives in the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Built in the early 1960s through the rainforest, it links Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso state, to Porto Velho, capital of Rondônia…
Ethnologist Martín von Hildebrand awarded Lovejoy Prize for Amazon conservation
The second recipient of the Thomas E. Lovejoy Prize, launched in 2024, was announced Sept. 23 at the Central Park Zoo in New York City, during New York’s climate week. Martín von Hildebrand, an ethnologist and anthropologist, won the award…
As Sri Lanka struggles with ghost nets, volunteer youth lead seabed cleanup
COLOMBO —Galle Face Beach in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo, is a popular spot among city dwellers, watched over by lifeguards assigned by the coast guard unit of the Sri Lanka Navy. But one Sunday morning, lifeguard Chamara Vipulasena’s rescue…
Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, scientists claim
New analysis suggests our species began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought
Asheville’s slimmed-down restaurants make a comeback a year after Hurricane Helene: ‘Back to the basics’
Many eateries in the North Carolina city now welcome tourists after navigating complex insurance rules to survive Cúrate, a Spanish tapas restaurant and one of the best-known eateries in Asheville, North Carolina, sat empty for two days after Hurricane Helene…
Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador’s plans to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration for more than $47 billion has prompted opposition from seven Indigenous peoples in the Amazon. Those groups say 18 of the proposed blocks overlap…
BBC Inside Science
What do we know about the causes of autism?
‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis – report
University of California, Berkeley, study found that those who experience severe effects will see upto a $1m in costs The climate emergency is significantly increasing costs for California households in the form of rising utility bills, lost wages and growing…
Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees
CASSOU, Burkina Faso — With her daba in hand, her back bent from decades in the fields, Maan — meaning “grandmother” in the local Nuni language of Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest region — isn’t ready to put down her hoe just…