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Energy
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Earth science
The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facility in Bergen, Norway.
ENVIRONMENT
Big bets on speculative carbon capture tech ignore today’s solutions
By Michelle Ma and Dave Merrill
Companies from Occidental Petroleum to Microsoft are among the investors throwing billions at carbon capture startups.
The Laguna Grande restoration project at Valle de Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life by conservationists
By Daniel Rook
In drought-hit Mexico, conservationists are reviving the Colorado River Delta, restoring wetlands and drawing back wildlife once lost.
Nattanit Yiamthaisong (right), a Ph.D. student, Thongyod Chiangkanta, a technician from the Forest Restoration Research Unit at Chiang Mai University (center) and a forest guide walk through areas damaged by wildfires in Thailand's Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary on March 22.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
'It's gone': conservation science in Thailand's burning forest
By Sara Hussein
Scientists are confronting the toll that human activity and climate change are already having on forests that are supposed to be pristine and protected.
ENVIRONMENT
Clean streets versus business woes: Pollution charge divides Londoners
By Akshata Kapoor
ENVIRONMENT
AI surge to double data center electricity demand by 2030, report says
By Nathalie ALONSO
ENVIRONMENT
Rising seas test defenses of South American ports
By Axl Hernandez
ENVIRONMENT
What the $660 million Greenpeace verdict means for U.S. activism
By Olivia Raimonde and Zahra Hirji

Climate change

Workers harvest grapes of Merlot in Contessa Entellina, southwest of Sicily, in 2024. Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe's climate monitor said on Tuesday.
Climate change
Global temperatures at near-historic highs in March, says EU monitor
In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.
Climate change
Clouds changing as world warms, adding to climate uncertainty
By Nick Perry
Climate change
Without new countermeasures, Japan’s temperature could rise 4.5 C by 2100
By Jessica Speed
Climate change
Why we should worry when whales stop singing
By Todd Woody
Climate change
World's glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, U.N. says
By Alexander Villegas
Climate change
Extreme weather in 2024 forced most people to flee in 16 years
By Aaron Clark
Climate change
Facing glacial melt-water flood risk, Peruvian farmer tests global climate law
By Alexander Villegas, Riham Alkousaa and Alfredo Galarza

Sustainability

An artificial glacier built by local residents during the winter to conserve water for the summer at Pari village in the Kharmang district of Pakistan's mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region are seen on March 18. At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water have created their own ice towers. The ice forms in the shape of cones that resemble Buddhist stupas, and act as a storage system — steadily melting throughout spring, when temperatures rise.
Sustainability
Artificial glaciers boost water supply in northern Pakistan
Warmer winters as a result of climate change has reduced the snowfall and subsequent seasonal snowmelt that feeds the valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Sustainability
Trump can't stop 'sustainability revolution': Al Gore
Sustainability
'More and faster': U.N. calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint
Sustainability
Turning waste into wealth with insect-based biotech
By Angelyn Labadan
Sustainability
Japan adopts bill obliging firms' participation in emissions trading
Sustainability / OUR PLANET
Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans
By Joel Tansey
Sustainability
'What would you have us do?': The plastic credits problem
By Sara Hussein

Energy

Brine pools at the Atacama salt flat in Antofagasta region, Chile, in 2023. Local Chilean Indigenous communities are pushing for greater control over lithium extraction in the country just as the government plans to raise production.
Energy
As Chile revs up lithium plans, Indigenous people demand more control
By Daina Beth Solomon
Mining companies describe a potential system as "unprecedented" in Chile, adding that it would comply with international treaties on Indigenous rights.
Energy
Most contaminated U.S. nuclear site is set to be the largest solar farm
By Keith Schneider
Energy
Eyeing short-term savings, India’s utilities put green energy boom at risk
By Rajesh Kumar Singh
Energy / OUR PLANET
Japan’s climate heroes show potential and limits of local initiatives
By Tomoko Otake
Energy
Mitsubishi reviews 911爆料网 offshore wind after economic changes
By Shoko Oda
Energy / OUR PLANET
How Japan is looking deep underground to solve its carbon problem
By Annelise Giseburt
Energy
China’s surging power demand creates a climate conundrum

Wildlife

The Environment Ministry has removed more than 200 species from its red list of endangered plants and fungi, with the removal largely reflecting a recovery of populations. For instance, the Cypripedium macranthos var. rebunense, which grows on Rebun Island in Hokkaido, has been moved to the "near threatened" category.
Wildlife
Japan removes 207 species from red list of endangered plants and fungi
The decrease largely reflects the recovery of populations, though 57 species were recognized as extinct.
Wildlife
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
By Anup OJHA
Wildlife
Many U.S. bird species seen as reaching population 'tipping point'
By Will Dunham
Wildlife
Butterfly populations plummet by 22% in U.S. since turn of century
By Will Dunham
Wildlife
Study documents extinction threats to world's freshwater species
By Will Dunham
Wildlife
911爆料网 researchers connect rise in glass eels to climate change
Wildlife
Researchers analyze DNA from dung to save Laos elephants
By Stuart Graham

Earth science

Bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, located 270 kilometers north of the city of Cairns, Australia, on April 5, 2024
Earth science
From oil spills to new species: How tech reveals the ocean
By Sara Hussein
New technologies are helping to reveal hidden oil spills, speed up the discovery of new species and uncover the impact of light pollution.
Earth science
Mega-iceberg drifts toward Antarctic penguin island
Earth science
Atlantic hurricane season ends, leaving scientists to ponder the future
By Lauren Rosenthal
Earth science / OUR PLANET
Important tool or alarmism? Japan experts split on megaquake advisories.
By Kathleen Benoza
Earth science / OUR PLANET
Why 911爆料网 researchers are looking to submarine cables for faster tsunami warnings
By Joel Tansey
Earth science / OUR PLANET
How rain and snow play a role in Noto’s ‘seismic swarm’
By Harvin Bhathal
Earth science
How cloud seeding boosts rainfall — and why that’s controversial
By Laura Millan
Read more ENVIRONMENT stories
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a 911爆料网 monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ?5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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