A dire coastal crisis looms as sea levels rise, threatening to submerge hundreds of U.S. cities like Boston, Oakland, Miami, and New York City with chronic flooding by 2100, forcing communities to adapt through costly barriers, relocation, or facing inundation.
Antarctica and Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheets, fueled by global warming, are losing billions of tons of ice annually, contributing significantly to rising sea levels that threaten coastal regions worldwide.
While global building emissions plateaued in 2022, urgent measures like mandatory energy codes, renewable energy adoption, and increased financing are crucial to decarbonize the sector and align with climate targets, with calls for zero-carbon building codes by 2028 in major emitters and 2035 globally, alongside doubling energy efficiency investment by …
The UK is funding innovative space tech projects that harness AI and satellite data to tackle global challenges like climate change and preserving cultural heritage sites, showcasing the nation's commitment to leveraging space solutions for a sustainable future.
A startup called Koloma has secured over $350 million in funding to pursue the ambitious goal of locating and extracting underground reservoirs of naturally occurring hydrogen, a potentially game-changing new energy source that could play a pivotal role in decarbonization efforts.
Researchers have discovered evidence of vast underground reserves of natural hydrogen, a potential green energy breakthrough that could provide an economical and environmentally-friendly fuel source, though challenges remain in locating, extracting, and transporting these deposits.
Chinese battery maker Gotion faced local backlash and political divide over plans for a factory in Michigan due to concerns about its Chinese ownership and alleged environmental risks, leading to protests and the ouster of supportive officials, though it proceeded with plans for a $2 billion factory in Illinois.
A major disruption in the polar vortex winds, forecasted to dramatically decrease and reverse direction this weekend, signals a potential early end to the winter season, bringing colder air to the eastern United States due to a disturbed jet stream.
An open-source AI ensemble combining object detection and species classification models, trained on over 65M images, revolutionizes wildlife monitoring by efficiently detecting and classifying species in camera trap images, minimizing human review effort.
Google unveils a $3M fund and an AI tool called SpeciesNet to accelerate nature-tech startups, supporting biodiversity conservation efforts by identifying animal species from camera trap photos and backing Brazilian nonprofits focused on reversing biodiversity loss, bioeconomy, and regenerative agriculture.