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Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitats
Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitatsScience

Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitats

By Pat Leonard Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Cornell University In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important…
SourceSourceJune 13, 2024 Full article
Bans on fossil fuel advertising are coming – and sport should not be exempt
Bans on fossil fuel advertising are coming – and sport should not be exemptClimate

Bans on fossil fuel advertising are coming – and sport should not be exempt

By  Freddie Daley, University of Sussex | The Conversation In a recent speech, UN secretary-general António Guterres called upon “every country to ban advertising from fossil…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matter
Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matterScience

Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matter

By Amanda Morris, Northwestern University When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two pathways. Either the microbe uses the food…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
Specialist and migratory birds at greater risk under climate change
Specialist and migratory birds at greater risk under climate changeClimate

Specialist and migratory birds at greater risk under climate change

By Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Following decades of decline, even fewer birds will darken North American skies by the end of the century,…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
IEA sees ‘major’ oil supply surplus emerging by 2030
IEA sees ‘major’ oil supply surplus emerging by 2030News

IEA sees ‘major’ oil supply surplus emerging by 2030

Paris, France (AFP) - The world is likely to have a "major surplus" of oil by 2030 as production is ramped up while the clean…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
Athens Acropolis to close during hottest hours Wednesday amid heatwave
Athens Acropolis to close during hottest hours Wednesday amid heatwaveNews

Athens Acropolis to close during hottest hours Wednesday amid heatwave

Athens, Greece (AFP) - The Athens Acropolis, Greece's most visited tourist site, will close to the public during the hottest hours of Wednesday as a…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
Climate misinformation overshadows record floods worldwide
Climate misinformation overshadows record floods worldwideClimateNews

Climate misinformation overshadows record floods worldwide

By Manon JACOB | AFP Washington, United States - Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat
The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heatClimate

The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat

By Kate Yoder & Sachi Kitajima Mulkey | Grist Predicting the future has always been a difficult, sometimes fruitless task, but scientists are surprisingly good…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
New discovery reveals unexpected ocean algae help cool the Earth
New discovery reveals unexpected ocean algae help cool the EarthClimateScience

New discovery reveals unexpected ocean algae help cool the Earth

By University of East Anglia A common type of ocean algae plays a significant role in producing a massively abundant compound that helps cool the…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Iceland grants whaling license for 2024 season: govt
Iceland grants whaling license for 2024 season: govtNews

Iceland grants whaling license for 2024 season: govt

Reykjavik, Iceland (AFP) - Iceland's government said Tuesday that it had granted a license to hunt 128 fin whales for the country's sole whaler amid…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
North China bakes under searing heatwave
North China bakes under searing heatwaveNews

North China bakes under searing heatwave

By Matthew WALSH | AFP Beijing, China - An extreme heat warning was in place in Beijing on Tuesday, with temperatures soaring across northern China…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Dengue, mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe: EU agency
Dengue, mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe: EU agencyNews

Dengue, mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe: EU agency

Stockholm, Sweden (AFP) - Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are rising significantly in Europe as climate change creates warmer conditions that help invasive…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scale
Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scaleScience

Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scale

By Mirjam Eckert, Chief Publishing Officer | Frontiers In the context of climate emergency, making scientific research open has never been more important. But for…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Climate change widening Asia’s education gap
Climate change widening Asia’s education gapClimate

Climate change widening Asia’s education gap

By Ranjit Devraj, SciDev.Net As temperatures in India’s national capital region hovered above a scorching 47 degrees Celsius in mid-May, authorities ordered the closure of…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Keeping the lights on
Keeping the lights onScience

Keeping the lights on

By Osaka University Researchers at Osaka University study the impact of carbon impurities on the quality of gallium nitride crystals, and determine the threshold concentration…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight
EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fightClimateNews

EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight

Helsinki, Finland (AFP) - A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began its…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
Air pollution linked to 135 million premature deaths: study
Air pollution linked to 135 million premature deaths: studyNews

Air pollution linked to 135 million premature deaths: study

Singapore, Singapore (AFP) - Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
Swiss approve law boosting renewable energy generation
Swiss approve law boosting renewable energy generationNews

Swiss approve law boosting renewable energy generation

By Agnes PEDRERO | AFP Geneva, Switzerland - Switzerland approved a law on Sunday aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energies, as part of…
SourceSourceJune 9, 2024 Full article
Oceanic ‘peace’ pact signed in Costa Rica ahead of 2025 UN talks
Oceanic ‘peace’ pact signed in Costa Rica ahead of 2025 UN talksNews

Oceanic ‘peace’ pact signed in Costa Rica ahead of 2025 UN talks

By Alberto PEÑA | AFP San José, Costa Rica - Over two dozen countries signed a wishful "declaration of peace with the ocean" on Saturday…
SourceSourceJune 9, 2024 Full article