An analysis of 23,424 investment funds holding $25 trillion found 1.5 percent aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius…
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 30, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
Australia's strange 'fairy circles' may mark buried hydrogen, and that could matter for clean energy
Aug 30, 2026
A single cotton T-shirt can have a water footprint of roughly 2,500 litres
By Daniel Moran · Aug 30, 2026
In the middle of South Africa's worst drought on record, a 16-year-old boiled orange peels, added avocado skins and left the mix out in the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
A California wind farm paid the Oregon Zoo to raise 12 condor chicks against a federal permit that lets its turbines kill two condors in 30…
Aug 29, 2026
In 1960 Chicago's mayor gave Crown Prince Akihito 18 bluegill from the Shedd Aquarium as a state gift
By Brendan Brown · Aug 29, 2026
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and pulled up ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago
Aug 29, 2026
No country would be truly safe if nuclear war went all the way. But Australia begins with advantages few others can match
Aug 28, 2026
Earth’s oceans are probably hotter than at any point in at least 1,000 years and are warming faster than they have for millennia
Aug 28, 2026
High Mountain Asia—the “Asian Water Tower” supporting hundreds of millions downstream—lost groundwater at an estimated 24.2 billion tonnes…
Aug 27, 2026
The oldest water ever found was hiding inside Canadian bedrock
By Daniel Moran · Aug 27, 2026
The cookiecutter shark is barely the length of a human forearm, but it hunts animals many times its size by latching onto them with…
Aug 27, 2026