As Canada’s premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, many of them remained consumed by climate change-related natural disasters that have only escalated since they returned home. “It’s not lost on us that emergency preparedness for natural disasters is more important than ever,” Nova … Read more
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When Pradhanang found a trash mix that could be fashioned into a platform and resist breaking down with age, she began talking to her colleagues in Nepal. By 2021, they had secured $78,000 in funding from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, a research and policy funder, to operate a study across Nepal, India, … Read more
Aerial view of a ship at sea. Suriyapong Thongsawang | Moment | Getty Images A tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel capsized off the coast of Philippines, leading to one casualty and a vast oil spill, local authorities said Thursday. The Philippine-flagged MT Terra Nova submerged 3.6 nautical miles east off Limay, Bataan … Read more
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues have been studying the ocean floor and its ecosystems, particularly in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone, an area littered with polymetallic nodules. As big as potatoes, these rocks contain valuable metals—lithium, copper, cobalt, … Read more
July 21 set the record for the Earth’s hottest day on record – a record that was broken the very next day on Monday, July 22. According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) data, the daily global average temperature on Sunday reached a new record high at 17.09 C, slightly exceeding the previous … Read more
Four scientists walked to Mars in June of 2023 and walked back again earlier this month. Well, they walked to a “simulated Martian habitat” at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, that is. The first of three planned “Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog” missions planned by NASA, CHAPEA 1 has concluded with Kelly Haston … Read more
GM’s 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV during a media launch event for the vehicle in Detroit, May 16, 2024. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – General Motors said Tuesday it is again slowing its plans for all-electric vehicles by further delaying a second U.S. electric truck plant and the Buick brand’s first EV. The six-month delay … Read more
Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Coal — the rock, not the roll — is one of the dirtier fuel sources out there, with both mining and burning it often leading to serious medical complications for those involved. Now, though, research suggests yet another way coal hurts people: Just transporting it. ‘Twister’ Remains The Greatest Car Commercial … Read more
Illustration: Lockheed Martin Nuclear-powered spacecraft could be the apex vehicle of this century’s space race. Concepts and designs for reactor-equipped rockets have been around for over 50 years but have never left the experimental stage. Despite ambitions to boldly go where no one has gone before, America’s latest push to get nuclear propulsion is to … Read more
The most common risks are having flammable mulch, plants, firewood, lawn furniture, decks, and fences. These items have been a primary reason homes burned in many wildfires, including the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed much of Paradise, California, and the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Fire protection guidelines take into consideration the … Read more
