Rural electricity access in Malawi was about 2% in 2002, and a 14-year-old sent home from school over $80 in fees built a 5-metre tower…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 27, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
Six North American wind farms let their blades sit idle until the wind passed 5 meters per second and bat deaths fell by 62 percent…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
The US Army made sarin and napalm on 17,000 acres outside Denver, and when biologists surveyed the fenced buffer land in 1986 they found a…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
Sea level is climbing faster in southern England partly because land in Scotland is rising
Aug 26, 2026
Researchers counting sheep under American solar farms as of October 2024 found 113,050 animals already grazing 129,261 acres on 506 sites…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
The 2004 earthquake lifted parts of North Sentinel Island by an estimated one to two metres and exposed its surrounding coral reef
Aug 25, 2026
Plants account for about 80 per cent of Earth's biomass measured as carbon, roughly 450 gigatonnes, while estimates suggest human land use…
Aug 25, 2026
In 2025, Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat than in any year since modern measurements began—an estimated 23 zettajoules, equivalent to…
Aug 25, 2026
A coal seam beneath Australia's Burning Mountain has been smouldering for about 6,000 years
Aug 25, 2026
On 5 July 2024, Earth completed a rotation 1.66 milliseconds short of 86,400 seconds, the shortest day measured in the atomic-clock era…
Aug 25, 2026
When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 25, 2026
The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern instruments
Aug 24, 2026