A massive report studying nearly 14.5 million students in 61 countries found that long-term heat exposure is interfering with students’ abilities to learn —and prolonged heat streaks are only getting worse. Why it matters: Increasingly high temperatures are worsening disparate educational outcomes, with the potential for long-term impacts on graduation rates and cognitive ability to grow as the globe continues to...
A new solar development in Sicily is redefining how mid-sized corporations access renewable energy. Autodesk, IDEXX Laboratories, Synopsys, and an unnamed fourth participant have collectively secured 30 MW of clean energy from the Catania Solartrack project, a 50 MW facility currently under development by Aquila Clean Energy EMEA in eastern Sicily. The agreement, brokered through Sustainability Roundtable...
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has renewed its four-year Embedded Engineering Resource Framework, valued at up to £9m ($12m), with seven companies. The renewal follows a four-year partnership in which engineers from seven specialised companies were supplied to UKAEA to support its mission to deliver fusion energy. Their collaborative effort not only facilitates the...
China is the world’s largest generator of wind power and a team of researchers at the heart of the global wind industry has just discovered an inconvenient truth: weather-dependent sources of electricity are a bad bet when the climate is changing. In an article published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, the Beijing and...
Developers of green hydrogen have scaled back investments and scrapped projects globally as elevated production costs and weak demand for the low-carbon fuel have made many ventures unviable. Here are some projects that have been cancelled, postponed or scaled back. Read more in Reuters here!
More than a million people in Italy live in areas at high or very high risk of landslides and climate change is likely to lead to more of them, a public research body said on Wednesday, announcing a new AI assistant to help them assess the risk. Climate change is increasing the frequency of stronger...
Tsunami waves have reached California and Hawaii several hours after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Far East. The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said Wednesday morning that tsunami waves measuring 1.6 feet above tide level have been observed in Arena Cove in the U.S. state of California. In Hawaii, tsunami waves of up to 4.9...
The Trump administration is seeking to repeal a landmark finding that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. “This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told the conservative “Ruthless...
Whole Foods Market and Mad Agriculture have launched a landmark initiative to reconstruct native ecosystems across American farmland, beginning in the Lowery Creek Watershed in Wisconsin. The “biodiversity highway” aims to create connected corridors of climate-resilient habitats that restore biodiversity, strengthen soil and water health, and increase the resilience of the U.S. food system. “Teaming up with...
Two of the world’s largest food and ag companies are working to rewire the way corn is grown across Iowa. PepsiCo and Cargill have launched a long-term initiative to implement regenerative agriculture practices across 240,000 acres in the state by 2030. Iowa, the top U.S. corn-producing state, plays a central role in the companies’ shared supply chain—Cargill...
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