Cities are trying to understand how concrete stores heat — with interesting...
More cities are trying to understand how heat gets stored in concrete and how that impacts temperatures. They’re doing this through mapping the urban heat island and finding interesting results. The...
View ArticleA23a: Spectacular arches, caves as monster iceberg decays
Published50 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, EYOS EXPEDITIONS/Richard Sidey By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent Erosion is sculpting dramatic features into...
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Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
As day broke over the small mountain town of Elliston, Virginia one Monday in October, masked figures in thick coats emerged from the woods surrounding a construction site. Three of them approached...
View ArticleThe waters of the Xingu: A source of life at risk of death
Even before sunrise, along the beaches of the rivers and lakes of Xingu Indigenous Park in the Brazilian Amazon, a series of bonfires appear on the horizon to warm the naked bodies that have just...
View ArticleNew AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater
How do you identify microplastics in wastewater? When Wayne Parker started out researching the issue, the existing techniques were time-consuming and cumbersome. For a long time, optical or infrared...
View ArticleCloned rhesus monkey created to speed medical research
Published24 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Zhaodi Liao, Nature By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey,...
View ArticleAgricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await
As the world grapples with escalating climate change, policymakers remain laser-focused on CO2, with humanity striving to decarbonize energy systems, capture carbon, issue carbon credits, and plant...
View ArticleFlood defence policy flawed, say MPs
Published2 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Reuters By Jonah FisherEnvironment correspondent The government must do more to protect homes in England from...
View ArticleIndonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over...
JAKARTA — An Indonesian palm oil company that dropped a lawsuit against a fire expert whose testimony led to its being fined is suing a second time, in what observers call a frivolous action meant to...
View ArticleAmazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis...
From September to November 2023 Manaus, a city located in the relatively intact forest area in the central part of Brazilian Amazonia, was surprised to find itself under a dense cloud of smoke, with...
View ArticleA rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?
In December, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced that it was set to spend $6.2 billion on mining the rich, high-grade iron ore deposits of eastern Guinea’s Simandou Mountains, with...
View ArticleEU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot
Bianca’s Bird Farm sits on a two-lane country road outside of the city of Antwerp in Belgium. There’s no sign out front, just a keypad and a video camera. A wooden gate and tall hedges block the view,...
View ArticleGlobal shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows
Shark finning bans have had little effect on protecting global shark populations, according to new research. However, shark mortality decreased in pelagic fisheries, which suggests that regulatory...
View ArticleFly-tipping forces landowners to turn farms into 'forts'
Published18 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Colin Rayner By Malcolm PriorBBC News rural affairs producer Fly-tipping in England had to be cleaned up 1.08...
View ArticleCivil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze
Thailand’s government began deliberations last week on a new Clean Air Act to address the nation’s annual haze crisis that chokes the country during the dry season months, typically between December...
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To keep building materials out of landfills, cities are embracing...
The vision Contractors at the Salvaged Materials Market ignored the stack of misshapen supplies, but Carmelo saw the makings of his masterpiece in that pile. The sculptor spent an hour scrounging to...
View ArticleReport shows loss of natural land cover in Ecuador — and where it can still...
Humanity’s footprint in Ecuador now covers more than 30% of the country’s total area, at the expense of coastal ecosystems, the Andes, and forests across the country. But it’s the Amazon Rainforest...
View ArticleOutcry over deforestation as Suriname’s agriculture plans come to light
Possible plans to develop large-scale agriculture in Suriname have sparked backlash from Indigenous communities, conservation groups and some members of parliament, who are concerned about...
View ArticleMarkets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade
This is the wrap-up article for our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. Mongabay recently published a...
View ArticleGuyana Amerindian communities fear Venezuela’s move to annex oil-rich region
In December, the Venezuelan government launched a series of measures and legislation to cement the country’s annexation of Guyana’s oil and mineral-rich Essequibo region. This is prompting fears among...
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