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…

Almost half a billion small, cheap electrical everyday items from headphones to handheld fans ended up in landfill in the UK in the past year, according to research. The Guardian: The not-for-profit organisation Material Focus, which conducted the rese…

A team of scientists drove hundreds of miles through the steppes of Kazakhstan in search of what may be one of the largest and most diverse fungi ecosystems on Earth.

The Washington Post believes their efforts “could help make the planet more resilie…

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the ozone hole above Antarctica reached approximately 10 million square miles in area on Sept. 16, 2023 — making it one of the largest seasonal holes ever observed. Space.com reports: One possible reason f…

The global average temperature for September broke records by such an absurd margin that climate experts are struggling to describe the phenomenon. From a report: “This month was — in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsma…

Fossil fuel exploration should cease globally by 2030 and funding to rescue poor countries from the impacts of the climate crisis should reach $200bn to $400bn a year by the same date, according to proposals in a UN report before the next climate summi…

The New York Times reports that a “squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers” are “waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health of more people than any other on earth: the mosquito.”
They are testing new insecticides and i…

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Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows. Even at temperatures approaching -30C, heat pumps outperform oil an…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: What I felt was fear,” says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. “The wildfires made me really a…