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Pollutionwatch: Study reveals indoor pollution’s impact on people with COPD

Researchers find pollution in inside spaces – mainly fossil gas – had greatest effect on those with the diseaseA study has revealed how air pollution inside and outside our homes [...]

‘Community action’: Oxfordshire’s Low Carbon Hub on its local renewable energy projects

Community energy group hopes for local electricity trading as part of its ‘better system’ of supply and ownershipIn the shadow of the Didcot power station in Oxfordshire, a small group [...]

China builds record-breaking magnet — but it comes with a cost

Nature, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03382-6The resistive magnet required a significant amount of energy to produce a field of 42.02 tesla. [...]

'It's our moonshot': Why scientists are drilling into volcanos

In Iceland scientists plan to drill down to magma to understand it and use it for energy production. [...]

Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River recovery

KLAMATH, CALIFORNIA—Brook M. Thompson was just 7 years old when she witnessed an apocalypse. “A day after our world renewal ceremony, we saw all these fish lined up on the [...]

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Pará's state capital, Belém, which will host COP30 in 2025, may elect a mayor unconcerned about climate change. [...]

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Forest defenders were stunned and concerned by the European Commission’s recent proposal for a 12-month delay in implementation of the EU’s new law to reduce global deforestation and forest degradation. [...]

Tiger population census in Bangladesh shows a hopeful upward trend in the Sundarbans

Reports show Bangladesh’s Bengal tiger population has grown steadily in the past nine years, owing to the government’s conservation initiatives. The latest published census report about the status of tigers in [...]

On a single day in August, Nigerian officials recovered more than 9 tons of illicit pangolin scales. The stockpile would be worth an estimated $1.7 million in East Asia, where [...]

Under the microscope: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2024 – in pictures

Spider eyes, butterfly wing scales, truffle spores and slime mould come under the spotlight in the 50th anniversary of the Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. The award celebrates photography through [...]

What Indigenous leaders want from the COP16 U.N. biodiversity conference

From Oct. 21 to Nov. 1, Indigenous and local community leaders from around the world will gather at the latest U.N. biodiversity conference, or COP16, which delegates say is poised [...]

A Data Center Fight Touches on a Big Question: Who Assumes the Financial Risk for the AI Boom?

Some of the largest companies in the world are fighting with an electric utility over how to allocate financial risk from the growth of data centers. The case before Ohio [...]

Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. In the winter of 2022, Lennard de [...]

Indonesia investigates suspected corruption in palm oil amnesty program

JAKARTA — Indonesian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as there are indications of corruption related to the palm oil industry. The attorney general’s [...]

‘I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on Peru’s uncontacted peoples

The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’Above the canopy of the tallest trees that vie for [...]

Indigenous leader freed after Canada pipeline protest ban conviction

Canada’s first “prisoner of conscience,” Chief Dsta’hyl of the Wet’suwet’en Nation Indigenous territory, was released in September after serving 60 days of house arrest. While the court order banning him [...]

Climate change and agrochemicals pose lethal combo for Amazonian fish

Among the labs of Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research, or INPA, is what’s known as the “room of the future.” Here, an extreme climate change scenario is being simulated [...]

Latest Dominion Energy Development Forecasts Raise Ire of Virginia Environmentalists

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s monopoly utility, did little to escape scrutiny from the state’s environmental community earlier this week when it released its integrated resource plan, a document that underscored the [...]

Thinking of going solar? Wait until you need a new roof.

Solar panels typically last 25 years, while shingles are good for 20. Waiting until you need to re-roof is usually the best course when going solar. [...]

Water challenges — made worse by rising temperatures — are threatening the world’s crops

“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing.” [...]

Most countries miss biodiversity pledge deadline to protect 30% of Earth

Twelve of the world’s 17 most biodiverse nations, home to 70% of the planet’s species, are likely to miss the United Nations’ Oct. 20 deadline to submit plans for reversing [...]

‘It’s shameful and I won’t pay it’: flood-hit Italians rage against insurance call

The destruction in northern Italy has ignited debate in a country where just 6% of homes are insured against natural disasterIt was 2am when the parish priest, Giovanni Samorì, was [...]

‘Scramble for the oceans’: how countries are racing to name and claim remote parts of the seabed

Newly ‘discovered’ underwater topographical features are paving the way for nation states to exploit previously untouched marine resources“The sea does not belong to despots,” Jules Verne wrote in 1869 in [...]

Search for new territory led Nepal’s ‘low-altitude’ snow leopard to get lost

KATHMANDU — A snow leopard found well outside its mountainous habitat in Nepal at the start of this year may have gotten lost while seeking out new territory, a new [...]

Sydney beaches to remain closed, Randwick mayor says – video

Some of Sydney's most popular swimming spots including Coogee and Gordons Bay beaches will remain closed after thousands of mysterious balls washed ashore. Preliminary test results identified the dark spheres [...]

NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects

A group of 28 NGOs have written to 34 banks, insurance companies and the Chinese government, urging them to deny financing and other support for oil and gas projects in [...]

Tesco signs deal to buy enough solar energy to power 144 large stores

Supermarket will buy almost two-thirds of the energy generated by the new £450m Cleve Hill solar park in KentTesco has struck a deal to buy enough solar power to run [...]

Tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could raise €64bn a year – study

Levy rising by €100 for each return flight after the first in a year could cut emissions by 21%, report saysA “jet-setter” tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could slow global [...]

Europe’s first live pale-legged leaf warbler recorded in East Yorkshire

Off-course bird that breeds in China and North Korea and winters in the Malay peninsula was seen at Bempton CliffsIn September in the UK, rare birds often come from the [...]

Sewage illegally dumped into Windermere repeatedly over 3 years, BBC finds

United Utilities failed to report 100 million litres of illegal discharges, analysis of its data shows. [...]