“A company backed by BlackRock has abandoned plans to build a 1,300-mile pipeline across the US Midwest to collect and store carbon emissions from the corn ethanol industry,” reports Ars Technica.

The move comes “following opposition from landowners …

Buckeye, Arizona, is eyeing ‘crazy’ ideas to keep growing, including piping water hundreds of miles uphill from Mexico. From a report: Arizona, stressed by years of drought, has declared its housebuilding boom will have to be curbed due to a lack of wa…

Four California dams are now being dismantled, reports the Arizona Republic:
Sometime in January, work crews will start drilling a tunnel at the base of a concrete dam on the Klamath River, near the California-Oregon border. The tunnel will begin the p…

This week Bloomberg explored so-called “zombie viruses” — that is, long-dormant microbes which they call “yet another risk that climate change poses to public health” as ground that’s been frozen for “milleniums” suddenly starts thawing — f…

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phys.org:
If global temperatures increase by 1 degrees Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally co…

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phys.org:
If global temperatures increase by 1 degrees Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally co…

Skygazers across the Americas turned their faces upwards Saturday for a rare celestial event: an annular solar eclipse.

Saqib Rahim reports via Wired: It’s been one of the wettest years in California since records began. From October 2022 to March 2023, the state was blasted by 31 atmospheric rivers — colossal bands of water vapor that form above the Pacific and become…

More than 40% of Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk since 1997 with almost half showing “no sign of recovery,” a study has found, linking the change to the climate breakdown. From a report: Scientists at the University of Leeds have calculated that 6…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: One e-toy for every person on Earth — that’s the staggering amount of electric trains, drones, talking dolls, R/C cars, and other children’s gadgets tossed into landfills every year. Some of wh…