Environment How the World’s Saltwater Lakes Are Vanishing at an Alarming Rate May 27, 2026 A Dying Natural Wonder A motorboat cuts through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea. Jake Ben Zaken points to darker water nearby. A sinkhole lurks beneath the seabed. These…
Environment Custard Apple Farming Transforms Lives in Drought-Hit Regions May 26, 2026 From Software Engineer to Innovative Farmer Ashoka Shivareddy comes from a family of farmers. Making a living proved hard in their drought-prone district. Kolar in southern India receives minimal rainfall.…
Environment Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Colorado Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giants May 24, 2026 High Court to Address State Climate Litigation Boundaries The decision carries sweeping ramifications for similar climate litigation nationwide. Climate activists and Democratic-led jurisdictions have filed numerous comparable lawsuits against major…
Environment Wyoming Officials Warn Against Touching Wild Animals This Spring May 21, 2026 Spring Wildlife Encounters Require Caution The Wyoming Game and Fish Department issues an urgent warning to residents and visitors. Spring brings newborn wildlife across the state’s landscape. Officials emphasize that…
Environment Residents Catch Data Centers Stealing Water as America’s Crisis Deepens May 14, 2026 Residents Expose Unauthorized Water Use by Data Centers in Two States In the first week of May, two alarming incidents came to light. Data center developers in Arizona and Georgia…
Environment Rural Utah Erupts Over Massive AI Data Center That Could Drain the Great Salt Lake May 10, 2026 Utah Residents Revolt Against 40,000-Acre AI Data Center More than a thousand voices erupted in chant on May 4. Box Elder County commissioners had just approved one of the world’s…
Environment The 2026 Energy Shock Is Accelerating the Global Shift to Clean Power May 8, 2026 A Historic Energy Crisis Is Reshaping the Global Power Landscape Oil and gas no longer arrive reliably where and when the world needs them. Prices have surged beyond what many…
Environment Trump Administration Pays $885 Million to Kill Two More Offshore Wind Projects April 28, 2026 Trump Administration Pays $885 Million to Abandon Two Offshore Wind Projects The Trump administration announced on Monday two more major payouts to energy companies. The companies agreed to walk away…
Environment Illegal Gold Mining Ravages Brazil’s Kayapó Indigenous Territory in Amazon’s Xingu Basin April 17, 2026 Illegal Mining Carves Deep Wounds Into Brazil’s Kayapó Indigenous Land The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has become a major hotspot for illegal gold mining. It sits within Brazil’s Xingu River Basin,…
Environment Science The Ocean’s “Missing” Plastic Has Been Found — And It’s Inside Us April 2, 2026 For decades, scientists wrestled with a paradox: we pour millions of tons of plastic into the world’s oceans every year, yet surface surveys could only account for a fraction of…