Category: Science/Environment (Page 9)
New Jersey’s Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 million gallons of drinking water a day.
Each one of those gallons weighs around 8 pounds, so it’s quickly apparent t…
Uganda has long struggled to protect its forests, amid a population explosion that fuels demand for plant-based energy sources perceived as cheap, especially charcoal.
Accordin…
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its…
At Dandora dumpsite, Kenya’s largest rubbish dump, scores of people pick through 2,000 tons of waste a day, looking to resell recyclable items. Now a local
A large-scale locust outbreak across eight provinces in north and northeast Afghanistan is posing an enormous threat to the country’s food security, the Food and Agriculture Organ…
At the end of the century, more than two billion people will be living in countries where extreme heat becomes life-threatening according to researchers in Europe and China.
Th…
From the outside, the residential high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper West Side looks pretty much like any other luxury building: A doorman greets visitors in a spacious lobby …
Submarines, robots and even artificial intelligence are some of the tools scientists will use to identify new species in the ocean.
Ocean Census, launched on A…
An inequity of tree cover is behind the historic $1.5 billion in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that’s set aside for the federal Forest Service Urban and Community …
Flash droughts are becoming more frequent due to climate change, a global study has found.
Scientists say it's down to a lack of rainfall and a loss of moistur…
