Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Wildfires, and the costs of fighting them, are projected to increase in the western United States, particularly the Northwest, research suggests. Credit: Kari Greer, USDA Forest Service/Flickr, Public Domain
By Anoulak Kittikhoun, originally published on Fulcrum Analysis on Southeast Asia Laos will graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category this year. Doing so not only achieves a national aspiration from the 2000s but also marks the end of a decades-long categorisation that has framed the country as “poor”. Laos will surpass three ASEAN […]
Alfalfa fields—which one of the authors (B.L.G.) grew up irrigating—flank a stream in northeastern Wyoming. Climate change is altering streamflows and the agricultural practices that depend on them in this area and across the U.S. West. Credit: Beatrice L. Gordon
NASA’s Artemis II mission launched on 1 April 2026 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. New research shows that solid-state rocket fuels, which were used in rocket boosters for this launch, deplete the ozone more than other types of rocket fuels. Credit: NASA/John Kraus
This story was originally published by Next City, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on solutions for equitable and just cities. Get Next City’s stories in your inbox: nextcity.org/newsletter. America’s fastest-growing new bank doesn’t specialize in AI or crypto-currency or some exotic investment strategy with little real world value. It specializes in environmental sustainability....
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Hotels and other service providers pitch themselves as eco-friendly when they’re not. Here’s how to call their bluff.
Mangroves, such as these ones in Cispata Bay, Colombia, effectively produce, trap, and store carbon-rich soil, but the future of this carbon storage is uncertain because of rising sea levels and climate change. Credit: Luisa Fernanda Gómez Vargas
I've spent over two decades translating climate science into public communication. I thought I understood why engagement stalls. George Marshall's behavioral science deep-dive into climate psychology showed me I had several things exactly wrong — including a few strategies I helped build. Here's what landed hardest, and why it still matters.
Indian Ocean, De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa. Credit: John Cameron, Unsplash
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Street trees reduce urban heat. That much is established. What’s less settled is whether they’re enough on their own, or whether the way a city plants matters as much as how much it plants. New field research from Melbourne, Munich, and Hong Kong, led by Mohammad A. Rahman at […]
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A storm approaches Cape Shirreff in Antarctica. Credit: Ray Buchheit, NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program/Flickr, CC BY 2.0
A coral tree blooms during the monsoon in Karnataka, India. Credit: Timothy A. Gonsalves/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Today's links Carneyism without Carney: Eh? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Replacing pharma patents with bounties; USTR v cheap leukemia meds; Plutocrats x wealth segregation; Anonymous Analytics; Scott Walker sells off donors; Anonymization v metadata; Probably; Amazon warehouse workers are the future of Amazon coders; Warcraft eggs; Brainwashing school; People who…
This story was originally published by New Mexico Rivers Rising, an independent project dedicated to covering New Mexico’s waterways and wetlands and the challenges they face in a warming world. For river ecosystems to survive dry times, they need their floods — and big, messy floodplains. In a case study recently published...
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Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it's too hot to go outside.
Global average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels through 2030, the United Nations warned Thursday.
The World Meteorological Organization said all 11 of the hottest individual years ever recorded occurred from 2015 onwards, and the trend is set to continue, with a new hottest-ever year "likely" before 2031.
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Crevasses on Greenland’s Store Glacier are seen here from an uncrewed aerial vehicle. Credit: Tom Chudley
Seagrasses grow in the waters of Lake Macquarie, a saltwater lake near the eastern Australian coast where researchers recently performed an experiment to see how seagrasses and sediment microbial communities respond to warming waters. Credit: Renske Jongen
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Since May 1, Amsterdam’s billboards and tram shelters no longer carry ads for burgers, petrol cars, or cheap flights. The Dutch capital is now the first in the world to ban public advertising for both meat and fossil fuel products. Where chicken nuggets and SUVs once competed for wall […]
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NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
It said that the "absurd" referendum was intended to "destabilise the country and polarise society".
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A decision made 70 years ago to plant vast areas of Japan with just two species of trees is now backfired with pollen clouds that are causing allergies in residents, writes the British broadcaster BBC. In February, a video went viral showing huge, smoke-like clouds billowing from Japan’s evergreen forests. It wasn’t smoke, but pollen, […]
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Scientists used data from eddy covariance towers around the world, such as this 128-meter-high tower in Finland, to improve methods of measuring evapotranspiration. Credit: Jonathan D. Müller (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu), CC BY-NC 3.0
Researchers gathered samples of sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. In some samples, the ice had a granular microstructure, as seen here. Credit: Kenneth Golden
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every year, The Earth Prize asks teenagers across the world the same question: what environmental problem would you solve, and how? Every year, the answers come from young people who live closest to the problem. After five years and more than 21,000 students across 169 countries, that’s less a […]
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM This is part two of our Earth Prize 2026 coverage. Part one covered four regional winners from Ireland, Kenya, Gaza, and India, including Tala and Farah Mousa, whose Build Hope Palestine project we first wrote about earlier this month. Here are the remaining three. Thailand: nests for hornbills, and […]
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The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of renewable energy, this scenario was found to be "implausible" by scientists. Credit: Zbynek Burival/Unsplash
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