There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...

Professor Albert van Dijk of the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society ... to power their destructive spiral of thunderclouds. Abnormally hot 30-degree ...

That included the revoking of Executive Order 12898, President Bill Clinton’s landmark order establishing federal actions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations ...

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AI can make day-to-day life easier, but its high energy requirements raise environmental concerns. After all, building and operating data centers involves large quantities of power, water ...

At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil. By Raymond Zhong The Trump administration ...

People around the world increasingly experience the devastating effects of environmental crises – from extreme weather, food insecurity, and health issues linked to water and air pollution ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite ...

I am a member of the UK Government's Biodiversity Expert Committee and a member of the Office for Environmental Protection's College of Experts. I am one of the >1,000 scientists supporting the ...