4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (978+ words) This article was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Soft corals discovered off the coast of Benin. Gérard Zinzindohoué / IRHOB Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (761+ words) The Edgar Thomson Works steel mill looms over Braddock, Pennsylvania. Justin Merriman / Bloomberg via Getty Images A Japanese steel giant has pledged billions in new investment in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River Valley, raising hopes that it would clean up pollution from…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (188+ words) Colobus congoensis, known locally as “Likweli.” Junior Amboko Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is just the fifth new species of African monkey discovered in the last…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (257+ words) The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, China, site of a massive dam project. Kobe Jiang via Flickr As China erects the largest hydropower installation on Earth atop an active fault line in the Himalayas, Chinese scientists are calling on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (441+ words) Workers manufacture sodium-ion batteries, an alternative to lithium-ion batteries, at Namey New Energy Technology in Luoyang, China. Zhang Yixi / VCG via Getty Images As EV sales boom and grids seek more energy storage, researchers are racing to develop batteries that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1168+ words) Numerous studies have found evidence of microplastics in human tissue. Peter Dazeley / Getty Images Pervasive plastic contamination and flawed analytical techniques have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body. In an interview, Australian scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (262+ words) A technician installs a Base Power home battery system that will sell electricity to the power grid in Texas. Base Power As residential batteries have become more energy dense, cheaper, and smaller, more households are storing their excess solar power....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (555+ words) This article was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A jogger runs along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, with heavy smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the background, in June 2023. Kamil…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (289+ words) Indigenous people in the Peruvian Andes undertake a pilgrimage to the Qulqipunku glacier. The glacier is retreating as the climate warms. Salwan Georges / The Washington Post via Getty Images In mountain regions from the Andes to the Himalayas, Indigenous people…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (197+ words) A researcher scans a plant specimen. Jeff Eden / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Researchers are increasingly digitizing plant and fungi specimens and using A.I. to analyze them, work that is transforming conservation science, according to a new report. A.I. is further empowering scientists…...