Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
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Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
25 votes -
For Southern Illinois and the climate, Shawnee National Park is the ‘next logical step’
9 votes -
Beyond the water flow rate: Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency
12 votes -
By sending Mississippi river waters on a new course, engineers hope to build new land—and test ways to save a retreating coast
10 votes -
Solar comprises over half of new energy production, reaching a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII
30 votes -
How illegal fishing ships hide at sea
10 votes -
Coywolves are prospering in Eastern North America
16 votes -
How to move a 1,000-pound rescued manatee (swimming isn’t an option)
6 votes -
Analysis: Donald Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
11 votes -
Why are there so many methane satellites?
6 votes -
Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
17 votes -
Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more. They do something worse.
65 votes -
Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
14 votes -
Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
13 votes -
Creation of a European Environment Authority -- Thoughts/opinions?
11 votes -
With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight
16 votes -
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says
19 votes -
Please, enough with the dead butterflies!
83 votes -
Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand as climate change and habitat loss disrupt food chains and lead to starvation
9 votes -
Chile puts brakes on Google data center over water use, environmental concerns
17 votes -
Inside the brazen Arctic trip supplying Vladimir Putin’s flagship energy scheme
7 votes -
How can mining precious metals ever be sustainable?
10 votes -
EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 – Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early
20 votes -
Ant geopolitics
27 votes -
Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups
20 votes -
Rooftop solar drives out coal, wind and grid-scale solar in Australia
21 votes -
UCLA and Equatic to build world’s largest ocean-based plant for carbon removal
13 votes -
Avian teachers: on what we can learn from birds - Excerpt from Birding to Change the World
4 votes -
One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
22 votes -
How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
8 votes -
The hidden butterfly trade
12 votes -
The country that’s sinking itself
8 votes -
Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
19 votes -
Zero emissions heat technologies for industry
6 votes -
The rise of arboviral diseases is closely connected to environmental degradation and climate change
7 votes -
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
45 votes -
How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
5 votes -
The spiralling cost of insuring against climate disasters – rising home premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent
30 votes -
This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
15 votes -
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
18 votes -
Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
7 votes -
Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India
31 votes -
Iceland plans to buy out home owners in volcano-struck town of Grindavík – total cost of the buyout could be as much as $440 million
20 votes -
Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5°C, 2°C and beyond
18 votes -
Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US
22 votes -
What one researcher learned studying grizzlies for nearly forty years
8 votes -
Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest after fire
16 votes -
Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
46 votes -
'Cliff-like' collapse of critical current system more likely than thought: study
28 votes