In just two decades the amount of microplastics has tripled on...
Microplastics make for an insidious form of pollution with vast quantities of tiny particles, invisible to the naked eye, permeating the environment from mountaintops...
Tackling nuclear waste is key to an energy transition
International cooperation will be needed to drive innovation and prevent bottlenecks in new nuclear projects.
In July, the European Union labelled nuclear as a green...
Doing away with diesel using small modular reactors
As far as decarbonization solutions, one of the challenges hanging out there looking for a solution is off-grid power – electrical power that is...
Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
Curichi Las Garzas is a natural refuge where thousands of wood storks (Mycteria americana) arrive each year to reproduce before continuing their journey.Land grabbers...
Sumatran habitat for tigers, orangutans gets a partial reprieve from development
The Aceh provincial...
For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended
Since Brazil began recording cases of workers found working in slavery-like conditions in 2004, 1,640 Indigenous people have been rescued from these situations.During the...
Urban heat islands: Lessons from Chicago’s underground
Sources of urban heat below ground, like trains and pipes, are causing land deformation and subsidence that can threaten Chicago’s buildings.
Asphalt, population density and...
Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts
The environmental and...
A new tool for conservation?
Researchers are discovering that listening to the soil can be a way to understand biodiversity belowground without having to overturn every bit of the...
Study shows Kenyan elephant shrew may be adapting to human disturbance,...
The endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew has seen its population in a Kenyan forest reserve increase by 52% in a decade, upending researchers’ fears of...
