A lot can go wrong in a large urban water system. Pumps malfunction. Valves break. Pipes leak. Even when the system is functioning properly, water can...
Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. David S. Johnson Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh,...
MANILA – The Philippines and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have signed agreements on blue carbon ecosystem and addressing plastic pollution on the sidelines of the 28th...
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More than 130 countries signed...
The debate about affordability and climate change is stuck. Opponents of carbon taxes and regulations emphasize increased energy prices. Clean energy advocates argue a net-zero emissions...
As this year’s UN climate summit (COP28) gets under way in Dubai, scientists studying Earth’s frozen regions have been delivering an urgent call for action to...
Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive....
Global heat has seared to new extremes in recent months, and devastating climate disasters are providing powerful reminders of the costs of climate change, as governments...
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it’s more than twice as likely to contribute...
The warnings about the disastrous impact we are having on our planet are becoming more dire. The UN Environment Programme’s most recent emissions gap report, which...