Blue-Green Algae Is Filling Rivers With Toxic Sludge
This year in Northern Ireland, some of the most serious blooms have occurred in Lough Neagh, the largest body of fresh water by surface area in the UK and Ireland. …
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Big Batteries Are Booming. So Are Fears They’ll Catch Fire
As with any development proposal, community opposition is complex and localized. Though easier to hide than wind turbines or solar panels, battery installations can mar a view, and construction can …
Stripe, Shopify, H&M spend $7 million on carbon removal via Frontier
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Airhive is one of the dozen companies Frontier has facilitated carbon removal purchases from on behalf of Stripe, Shopify and H&M. Airhive is developing a …
Biden heads to New Delhi for G20 amid rising global tensions
US President Joe Biden looks on as India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies, in the East Room …
Why You Shouldn’t Use Exterior Paint Inside
Having separate types of paint for indoor versus outdoor use may sound like a marketing ploy to get us to buy more paint—reminiscent of when advertisers a century ago tried …
ADNOC to spend over $1 billion a month on oil and gas for years, Global Witness says
Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive of the UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and president of this year’s COP28 climate summit gestures during an interview as part of the …
Microplastics Tied to Behavioral Changes in Mice, Study Finds
The world is covered with plastic pollution. That breaks down to become microplastics—tiny bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm. We know that it isn’t healthy to find these bits …
Indonesia’s China-backed high-speed train sparks concerns of debt trap
Indonesia is starting trial runs for its first high-speed train, which will connect the capital Jakarta to a neighboring city of Bandung, after years of delays and cost overruns plagued …
Why they happen, how they hurt
This picture of the Pacific Ocean was taken by the International Space Station orbits into in April 2022 from 261 miles up. Photo courtesy NASA The oceans of the world …
World leaders at risk of ignoring fossil fuel time bomb
Jim Skea was elected as the new chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the globally authoritative U.N. body on climate science, on July 26, 2023. Fabrice Coffrini | …