Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg’s Arrest in London Sheds Light on the Urgency of Climate Action

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police in London after protesting outside an oil and gas conference, preventing some delegates from attending. Thunberg, who gained fame as a face of young climate activists worldwide, has been detained or removed...
Greenland

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting at an Alarming Rate, While Antarctica’s Slows Down

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have found that surface ice in Greenland is melting at an increasing rate, while the trend in Antarctica is moving in the opposite direction. The study, published...
Wildfires

The Burning Amazon: Wildfires Pose a Dire Threat to Climate-Crucial Environmental Progress

Uncontrolled wildfires are threatening environmental gains in Brazilian Amazonia, a region of high biological and cultural diversity. A letter published in Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights the alarm in a study co-authored by researchers at the University of East Anglia...
Scotland's Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Powering the Future: TotalEnergies Unveils Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables have announced that their Seagreen offshore wind farm, located in the North Sea, is fully operational and running at its design capacity of 1,075 MW. The joint venture, which began construction in June 2020, has been...
Brazil Amazon

Brazil’s Amazon: Record Low River Levels Threaten Ecosystems and Communities

BRASILIA, Brazil The Negro River, Brazil's second largest tributary, reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago, confirming the Amazon's worst drought. The river drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's...
Honey Bee Drones

Honey Bee Drones: The Hardworking Alternative

Honeybee researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have published a study in Animal Behaviour that reveals that male...
Gathering of Critically Endangered Scalloped Hammerheads off Perth's Seas

Gathering of Critically Endangered Scalloped Hammerheads off Perth’s Seas

Researchers have discovered a location in a marine park off the coast of Perth where juvenile scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) gather in large groups. These sharks, one of ten species in the hammerhead family, prefer warm waters but have become...
golden bluebottle (Chrysomya incisuralis) is one of many species of Australian blowfly

Australia’s Common Flies: Insights and Prevention Tips for Fly Season

Fly season is a time for appreciation for the diverse and essential insects we share our world with. With almost a million species worldwide and 30,000 in Australia, the warm weather offers an opportunity to appreciate these creatures. Bush flies,...
freshwater New Zealand

New Zealanders’ Concerns: Water-Trading Clubs for Freshwater Quality

New Zealanders have consistently rated freshwater health as a leading environmental concern for over 25 years. However, the issue is absent from the 2023 election campaign due to the controversial new water reform law and the 2020 Essential Freshwater package....
Cleaner Snow

Enhanced Snowpack Forecasting with Cleaner Snow

The decline of snowpack in the Northern Hemisphere is expected to decrease due to less pollution settling into snow. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory predict that the reduction in snowpack will be less than half...
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