Californians will no longer have the option of plastic bags. On Sept. 22, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores in the ...
Butterfly Conservation, a British charity devoted to protecting butterflies, has declared a “Nature Emergency” following the results of its latest annual Big Butterfly Count. Started in 2010, the citizen science ...
A whole new type of wood discovered by scientists might help do something extraordinary despite its lackluster name: Midwood, as it’s called, could help in the fight against climate change. ...
Flooding from a dam collapse in Nigeria swept deadly zoo animals and more than 250 inmates into local communities in Maiduguri, Nigeria, last week. “The floods brought down the walls ...
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In the deepest parts of the ocean there’s no sunlight, temperatures hover just above freezing, and the pressure is so intense it’s like having 100 adult elephants laying on top ...
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which dedicated $370 billion to investments in clean energy projects, was the biggest climate legislation in American history when it was signed into law just ...
Who knew a bag of Cheetos could do so much ecological harm? A tourist’s misplaced Cheetos bag apparently wreaked havoc inside Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. According to ...
Typhoon Yagi made landfall on Saturday night, arriving as one of the most powerful storms in Vietnam’s history. Yagi has caused damage, flooding, and landslides along with significant loss of ...
In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote ...
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