A U.S.-backed push to derail a global carbon price for shipping threw EU climate talks off course, as Greece blocked a reference to the International Maritime Organization’s levy. After Athens dropped support at last week’s IMO meeting—under pressure from industry and the U.S.—EU environment ministers spent hours stalled before approving...
Delhi woke to a toxic haze after Diwali as fireworks flouted court limits on “green” crackers and timing. The city’s Air Quality Index hit 360 on Tuesday—“very poor”—with some areas measuring about 24 times the WHO’s 24-hour PM2.5 guideline. Low winds, stubble burning and vehicular emissions compounded the smog. Reporters...
Researchers report a cleaner way to recover rare earth elements from waste magnets, using flash joule heating and chlorine gas to vaporize unwanted metals and leave REEs behind as oxides or oxychlorides. The process, detailed in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, achieved over 90% purity and over 90%...
Wildlife photographer Margot Raggett, who has raised £1.2m through her Remembering Wildlife books since 2015, says momentum has slipped, citing repeated US withdrawals from the Paris agreement and UK parties pledging to drop the 2050 net zero goal. Her new volume, Ten Years of Remembering Wildlife, pairs images of animals...
More than 20 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday after the agency canceled “Solar For All,” a $7 billion program intended to expand rooftop and community solar for low-income households. The suit, led by Washington, Arizona and Minnesota, says EPA unlawfully terminated the Inflation Reduction Act program in...
An immense storm surge from Typhoon Halong’s remnants battered western Alaska’s coastal villages, floating houses and pushing water more than six feet above normal tides. In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, 121 homes were destroyed and three dozen more drifted away; one person is dead and two are missing. More than 1,000...
Federal officials rejected the lone bid for more than 6 million tons of coal under Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest, the third Western public-lands coal sale to collapse this month. The Interior Department said the offer, covering two tracts near the Skyline Mine and requested by a Wolverine Fuels subsidiary,...
Months after the January Palisades Fire leveled his Pacific Palisades home, Spencer Pratt has recast himself as an unrelenting watchdog, arguing the catastrophe was preventable and suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Tending the hummingbirds that survived his scorched hillside, he channels grief into public broadsides over...
Australia's tropical rainforests have flipped from carbon sinks to sources, the first known worldwide, according to a Nature study of 49 years of data from 20 Queensland forests. Extreme heat, atmospheric dryness, drought and more intense cyclones have killed trees faster than new ones grow, turning woody biomass into a...
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 geomagnetic storm watch for Oct. 16 as Earth is set to be hit by the first of several CMEs, with the strongest effects late Thursday into early Friday. The Kp index is forecast to peak between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. EDT...
