Earth Science & Environment

12+ min ago   (446+ words) Published Sep 16, 2026 9:21 AM EDT Data centers don’t just undergird the avalanche of AI slop polluting our social media feeds — they’re spewing an awful lot of physical slop as well. On top of the noxious air pollution, as well as the…...

27+ min ago   (564+ words) Home » News » Weather » Heavy rain heading for Durban as Level 6 warning issued eThekwini has placed emergency teams on high alert ahead of a Level 6 disruptive rainfall warning for Durban over the next two days. Durban residents are being urged to…...

33+ min ago   (599+ words) A series of reintroductions have seen the bison return to a landscape in Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert after a 200 year absence. Having acted as ecosystem anchors for the vegetation is this vital biosphere reserve for millennia, their return is seen as…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1127+ words) The FCC's new Innovation Zone at Iowa State University arrives just as John Deere's machines start producing more data than any rural network can carry. Two years ago I stood in a cornfield outside Ames, Iowa, watching a modular farm…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (493+ words) LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Google has agreed its biggest carbon-removal deal yet, backing a project in Brazil run by developer Terradot that aims to both cut methane emissions from rice farming and capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, executives told Reuters....

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (915+ words) An already-strong El Niño just turned super as the phenomenon crosses into unprecedented territory. The natural climate cycle has been strengthening at a breakneck pace since it was first declared in June and is stronger now than it’s ever been…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (113+ words) A trough of low pressure in the central subtropical Atlantic remained disorganized Wednesday morning and had a low chance of becoming a tropical depression, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said. As of 7 a.m. Wednesday, forecasters gave the system a 30% chance…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (719+ words) About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice five feet deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report. A…...

1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (353+ words) She said that this instability led her to propose a new European Heatwave Plan as well as a future European firefighting fleet of airplanes. Currently, the EU operates a small fleet itself but coordinates a network of aircraft, water trucks…...

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