2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (108+ words) A cargo ship off the coast of Venezuela. In response to environmental concerns, international regulations over the past two decades have required ships to switch to cleaner fuels in certain coastal regions. Credit: Wilfredor, Wikimedia Commons See all posts in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (161+ words) Irrigation on agricultural land in Colorado, USA. The energy required to pump water for irrigation has environmental and economic costs, and many parts of the world are shifting to alternative irrigation power sources like solar. Credit: Tony Webster How'much'will'Western'wildfires'worsen'under'warming? A…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1051+ words) Astrobiology Science Conference 2026 Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center One John Nolen Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53703 17 " 22 May 2026 WASHINGTON " The 2026 Astrobiology Science Conference, hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), will convene next week in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The biennial conference brings…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago  (763+ words) Astrobiology Science Conference 2026 Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center One John Nolen Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53703 17 " 22 May 2026 Press contact: Liza Lester, +1 (202) 777-7494, [email'protected] Ab Sci Con26 will host about 900 scientific posters, talks, town halls and plenary lectures. Browse the conference program for a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (148+ words) Dusk on the Yangtze River. As the topographic divide between the Yangtze and Yellow rivers" basins has moved over time, billions of cubic meters of water that once flowed into the latter each year now drain into the former. Credit:…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (642+ words) A patch of felled forest near Apu, in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. While small areas of deforestation can augment local rainfall, clearing vast swaths has the opposite effect, especially under climate change. Credit: Amaz'nia Real, Wikimedia…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (603+ words) The Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park in 2013. Since 1992, wildfires caused by humans have gotten less frequent in densely populated states like California and Arizona but more frequent in more sparsely populated ones like Wyoming, although the total annual burned…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (202+ words) A mangrove forest along the Mida Creek near the coast of Kenya. Each year, mangroves remove hundreds of thousands of metric tons of excess nitrogen from coastal ecosystems around the world, mitigating the impacts of nitrogen pollution from human activities....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (194+ words) Firefighters stand before a wildfire in Wyoming, USA. As climate change dries out the American West, priming it for more wildfire, projections of future burned area vary depending on whether scientists base their estimates more on atmospheric dryness or soil…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (301+ words) A smoggy orange atmosphere hides the surface Titan in this true color image of the moon passing in front of Saturn and its rings, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It is the only moon in our solar system with a…...