AI’s planned data-center boom is straining California’s grid forecasts and raising fears that customers could pay for upgrades if projects never materialize.
Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, according to UNICEF data from six countries
Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.
The European Union is set to push back its ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by five years to 2040, piling pressure on the UK to rethink the automotive sector’s net-zero commitments.
Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters off Greenland might hold the key.
Since the early 1930s, the state has lost about 2,000 square miles of land for a variety of reasons that range from groundwater pumping to building levees along the Misssisippi River that have stopped the natural dumping of sediment.
An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to transform the sacred site in Arizona.
Developers of Project Jupiter are seeking state approval for emissions that could surpass the combined greenhouse gases of Albuquerque and Las Cruces, while advocates warn the split-permit approach skirts regulations meant to limit major air pollution sources.
Major U.S. fossil fuel companies, working through PR firm Teneo, coordinated an aggressive campaign to dilute the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by aligning decision makers with far-right factions and leveraging U.S.–EU trade tensions.
Microplastics mixed into ocean samples can make plastic-derived carbon appear indistinguishable from natural organic matter, potentially distorting long-standing assessments of the marine carbon cycle and climate models built on those data.
With Trump’s budget knife still poised over NOAA’s climate research operations, international researchers see a reduced role for the nation that pioneered CO2 measurement.
