Utah’s Great Salt Lake had shrunk by two thirds its original size, the New York Times reported last June. And “It was only three months ago that nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists sounded the alarm that the Great Salt Lake in Utah faces…

Earth’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years, according to new work from Carnegie Science’s Anat Shahar and UCLA’s Edward Yo…

A report released on Wednesday found that wind and solar energy made up a record high 12% of global electricity generation in 2022. Meanwhile EU countries are lagging behind with wind power expansion. From a report: All renewable energy sources, includ…

Apple said it will invest up to an additional $200 million in its Restore Fund, which was created in 2021 to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Reuters reports: The additional investment is expected to help the fund start new projects and carry forward…

If reactors are retired, polluting energy sources that fill the gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths, researchers estimate. The findings appear in the journal Nature Energy. MIT News reports: They lay out a scenario in which every nuclear p…

After unusually low amounts of rain and snow this winter, the continent faces a severe water shortage. From a report: What happens during the next few months will really matter. Abundant rainfall could ease the situation and stave off the worst-case sc…

Duke University announces their engineers “have produced the world’s first fully recyclable printed electronics that replace the use of chemicals with water in the fabrication process” — bypassing the need for hazardous chemicals.
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“As automakers scour the planet for the metals it will take to build tens of millions of electric cars, they are deliberately taking a detour around one of the only places on earth where so much of what they need is laying around and available to be pl…

A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants — down to four square miles — lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) …

The world needs a “business mindset” to tackle the climate crisis, the president of the next UN climate summit has said. From a report: Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of the Cop28 summit to be hosted in the United Arab Emirates later this yea…