Natural Hydrogen: A Potential Clean Energy Source Beneath Our Feet
A remote community of mud huts and corrugated iron roofs in the arid savannah of West Africa could be a trailblazer for a new form of carbon-free energy. The residents…
Flying Green: The Pursuit of Carbon-Neutral Aviation Revs Up
Last September, a small white aircraft with an unusual design took off from Maribor Airport, in Slovenia. The two pilots were not seated front and center; instead, they steered the…
How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting World’s Groundwater
There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million farmers will be raising irrigation water from beneath their fields using solar-powered…
As Carbon Air Capture Ramps Up, Major Hurdles Remain
Texas is by far the top emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States: The oil-rich state releases twice as much carbon dioxide as the runner-up state, California, and as…
Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees
When head ranger Ikavy Pitatamae walks into the rainforest on Choiseul Island, the westernmost of the nearly 1,000 islands that make up the South Pacific archipelago of Solomon Islands, he…
Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2
Last May in Grundartangi, a small port in western Iceland, a barge piled high with wood chips began making regular trips to a patch of ocean 190 miles from the…
To Foil a Lethal Pest, Scientists Intention for a Beetle-Resistant Ash Tree
The tree Radka Wildova and Jonathan Rosenthal needed to indicate me was only some hundred toes from the path at Tivoli Bays, a state wildlife administration space in Rhinebeck, New…
The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife
Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in the field and committed to experiments that take years to yield results. But even…
In Montana’s Northern Plains, Swift Foxes Are Back from the Brink
The swift fox — known as Nóouhàh-Toka’na to the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes — once roamed the Western plains from Texas to Canada, eating small rodents and insects. But their…
For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use
Australia’s unprecedented bushfires of 2019 to 2020 burned an area larger than the United Kingdom, killed at least 33 people, killed or displaced close to 3 billion animals, and destroyed…