America’s efforts to cut its climate change pollution stalled in 2024, with greenhouse gas emissions dropping just a fraction, 0.2 percent, compared to the year before, according to estimates published Thursday by the Rhodium Group, a
Posted on January 9, 2025 by inuno.ai
It’s too soon to know the financial cost of the wildfires burning around Los Angeles. But the toll on California’s troubled insurance market could be enormous. The fires struck just as California officials have been working
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
One of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s biggest “drill, baby, drill” initiatives suffered a significant setback on Wednesday as the Interior Department announced that a lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended without a single
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
Christian Ulloriaq Jeppesen remembers how this all started. In 2019, during Donald J. Trump’s first term as president, Mr. Trump floated the idea of the United States buying the island of Greenland. At the time, most
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that “no new windmills” would be built in the United States when he takes office, a direct rebuke of the Biden administration, which has approved 11 commercial-scale offshore wind
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
One of the most powerful parts of President Biden’s signature climate law was designed to attract support from such a wide array of industries that it would be hard for Congress to repeal. Now, that theory
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
Getty Images Bumblebees normally hibernate over winter Bumblebees have been found to be starting nests in the depths of winter due to climate change, say conservationists. The charity Buglife said active worker bumblebees, which do most
Posted on January 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s attention returned Tuesday to an idea that has fascinated him for years: acquiring Greenland for the United States. In a news conference on Tuesday, he refused to rule out using military or
Posted on January 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
Last week, Microsoft announced that it would spend approximately $80 billion during this fiscal year to build data centers for its booming artificial intelligence business. That gargantuan sum is a testament to the opportunity that Microsoft
Posted on January 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
Exxon Mobil sued California’s attorney general, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups on Monday, alleging that they conspired to defame the oil giant and kneecap its business prospects amid a debate over whether plastics can
Posted on January 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
President Biden will travel on Tuesday to the Coachella Valley in California to announce the creation of two national monuments that together will protect more than 848,000 acres of land in the state from drilling and
Posted on January 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
Getty Images Wind provided more electricity than ever last year as the UK moved further away from planet-warming fossil fuels to power the nation, new data shows. Wind generated nearly 83 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity across
Posted on January 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
As the world grapples with climate change, population growth and dwindling supplies of fresh water, more people are set to rely on treated wastewater to sustain their daily lives. But wastewater, even after treatment, contains high
Posted on January 6, 2025 by inuno.ai
President Biden announced on Monday what he called a permanent stop to new oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal waters, saying he was making the move because drilling posed
Posted on January 6, 2025 by inuno.ai
CNRLI Navarro the male lynx, photographed here by a camera trap With his leopard-like spots, Navarro – a male lynx – calls out during mating season as he walks towards a camera trap. Just short of
Posted on January 6, 2025 by inuno.ai
Moments after his election as House Speaker on Friday, Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, wasted no time in highlighting energy as one of his top priorities. He said the Republican Congress would expand oil and gas
Posted on January 3, 2025 by inuno.ai
For such a tiny fish, the snail darter has haunted Tennessee. It was the endangered species that swam its way to the Supreme Court in a vitriolic battle during the 1970s that temporarily blocked the construction
Posted on January 3, 2025 by inuno.ai
A killer whale, which captured the world’s attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah, has
Posted on January 3, 2025 by inuno.ai
BBC Saltwater crocodiles were almost hunted to extinction in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT). Now they’re thriving It’s dawn on Darwin Harbour and government ranger Kelly Ewin – whose job is to catch and remove crocodiles –
Posted on January 3, 2025 by inuno.ai
Icon of a wilting palm tree Fighting the crowds The popular use of the word “overtourism” can be traced to a 2016 article about Iceland in Skift, a travel-industry publication. But it’s been a theme on
Posted on January 2, 2025 by inuno.ai
BBC/Kevin Church These footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoon The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints,
Posted on January 2, 2025 by inuno.ai
Getty Images From busy freeways to classic-car street racing, Los Angeles has long been considered the capital of American car culture. Can it change in time for the Olympics? With nearly year-round sunny skies, some say
Posted on January 1, 2025 by inuno.ai
BBC On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through the atmosphere, Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe was on a mission to discover more about the Sun,
Posted on December 31, 2024 by inuno.ai
An Indian-made rocket has blasted off from a site north of Chennai, carrying two satellites which will test space-docking. Docking is crucial for manned travel to the Moon or supporting a space station. Announcing “the successful
Posted on December 31, 2024 by inuno.ai
BBC/Tony Jolliffe Astronomers are poised to catch a star that only shines about once every 80 years On a cold February night in 1946, a 15-year-old schoolboy made a surprising discovery as he peered out of
Posted on December 30, 2024 by inuno.ai
By Steven RattnerGraphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Rattner was counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. Dec. 29, 2024 Donald Trump triumphs. The economy chugs along. A tech billionaire builds a shadow presidency. These
Posted on December 30, 2024 by inuno.ai
Hasan Jedi/Getty Images Successive heatwaves added to the many pressures faced by the almost two million people displaced by the conflict in Gaza Climate change has brought record-breaking heat this year, and with it extreme weather,
Posted on December 29, 2024 by inuno.ai
NASA Parker Solar Probe broke records as it made its burning-hot fly-by A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just
Posted on December 27, 2024 by inuno.ai
Getty Images Charities, food banks and homeless shelters are to receive access to a £15m fund from the government to help use surplus farm food. Set to be launched in 2025 the scheme will give grants
Posted on December 27, 2024 by inuno.ai
National Trust Images, Paul Harris In early 2024, Bodnant Garden in Conwy, Wales experienced significant damage due to Storm Darragh. Storms and flooding have damaged some of the UK’s most precious heritage, according to the National
Posted on December 27, 2024 by inuno.ai
Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped. People had been given
Posted on December 26, 2024 by inuno.ai
Twenty big cats – including a Bengal tiger and four cougars – have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington. “This tragedy has deeply affected
Posted on December 26, 2024 by inuno.ai
BAS Derren Fox will be spending Christmas at Signy, counting the penguins How are you spending your Christmas? While many will be curled up on the sofa in front of a roaring fire (or at least
Posted on December 25, 2024 by inuno.ai
NASA Parker Solar Probe will break records as it makes its burning hot fly-by A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging
Posted on December 24, 2024 by inuno.ai
The future could be bad, or it could be better. You can help decide. Source link
Posted on December 22, 2024 by inuno.ai
Right now, every moment of every day, we humans are reconfiguring Earth’s climate bit by bit. Hotter summers and wetter storms. Higher seas and fiercer wildfires. The steady, upward turn of the dial on a host
Posted on December 22, 2024 by inuno.ai
These U.S. counties regularly get hit by hurricanes, face major wildfires and floods and swelter under punishing heat. High risk of natural disaster and extreme heat A map of the United States that highlights large parts
Posted on December 21, 2024 by inuno.ai
DIII-D National Fusion Facility, operated by General Atomics, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory By Raymond Zhong, who visited fusion companies in Massachusetts, California, Washington and British Columbia. Nov. 15, 2024 The quest for fusion energy —
Posted on December 21, 2024 by inuno.ai
A Brookes/The Modern Antiquarian Thousands of ancient landmarks are on private land and can only be viewed from a distance or with the landowner’s permission Walkers and history-lovers have no easy way to visit more than
Posted on December 20, 2024 by inuno.ai
Scientists are seeing changes that could have consequences for the whole planet. Source link
Posted on December 19, 2024 by inuno.ai