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…
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…
Slowly but Surely, U.S. School Buses Are Starting to Electrify
About 20 million students in the United States ride to school each day on the familiar yellow bus. The vast majority of the nation’s roughly 490,000 school buses — which…
Why Taiwan and Its Tech Industry Are Facing an Energy Crisis
Some 50 miles southwest of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, and strategically located close to a cluster of the island’s top universities, the 3,500-acre Hsinchu Science Park is globally celebrated as the…
Ukraine Rewilding: Will Nature Be Allowed to Revive When War Ends?
It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River just before dawn on June 6 last year rapidly emptied Europe’s largest hydroelectric reservoir. Some…
Trump 2.0: This Time the Stakes for Climate Are Even Higher
ANALYSIS Donald Trump has promised to halt federal climate action and repeal the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, which provides unprecedented spending for clean energy. The market momentum for renewables and…
How Agroforestry Could Help Revitalize America’s Corn Belt
Drive through rural Minnesota in high summer and you’ll take in a view that dominates nearly the entire U.S. Midwest: an emerald sea of ripening corn and soybeans. But on…
Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality
Bernd Soboll’s favorite spot at his workplace — a cement plant 30 miles north of Hamburg — is an open-air platform almost 300 feet high. From here, the construction manager…
The Race to Save Glacial Ice Records Before They Melt Away
When Margit Schwikowski helicoptered up to Switzerland’s Corbassière glacier in 2020, it was clear that things weren’t right. “It was very warm. I mean, we were at 4,100 meters and…
Why We Need a Strong Global Agreement on Plastics Pollution
When marine biologist Richard Thompson and his students analyzed samples of beach sand over 20 years ago, they were surprised to find countless small multicolored pieces of plastic mixed in.…