Bill Gates to build next-generation nuclear facility in Wyoming
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will build a next-generation nuclear plant at a soon-to-be-retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming in the next several years, business...
Sri Lanka’s burning cargo ship on track to become its ‘worst environmental disaster’
A huge cleanup operation was underway for the sixth day in Sri Lanka Tuesday after a container ship laden with chemicals caught fire 12...
‘Green recovery required to overcome COVID-19’
Global leaders participating in the P4G Seoul Summit agreed Monday that climate change was an urgent global threat that went beyond environmental issues, having...
A robotic microplankton sniffer dog
Marine phytoplankton, or plant plankton, are incredibly important to life on Earth. As they go about their work of turning sunlight into energy, they...
A neural network improves forecasts for severe storm hazards
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is using artificial intelligence to run experimental forecasts for hail, tornadoes, and intense winds—storm hazards that can cause...
Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano erupts: US Geological Survey issues ‘red warning’ for aviation
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have issued a ‘red warning’ to aviation as the Great Sitkin volcano erupts,...
All that glitters: Kyrgyzstan is going to war with a Canadian gold giant over...
Nearly three decades ago, Kyrgyzstan signed a deal designed to enrich the mountainous nation and its people. Now though, with warnings of human rights...
UK climate champion ‘stubbornly optimistic’ about net zero deal at UN talks
The UK’s climate champion, Nigel Topping, says he is stubbornly optimistic that the world will converge on an agreement to forge a transition to...
Ivory Coast cocoa mid-crop suffers from dry spell
Unusually low rainfall last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions has reduced bean size and threatens to cut short the April-to-September mid-crop,...
Undammed, undimmed: The battle over a unique European river
Cutting into craggy mountains, meandering through plains and eventually hitting Albania's shimmering Adriatic, the Vjosa river's untouched landscapes are a national treasure, but one...
