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Happy Eco News Virtual Power Plants Take Shape as Solar Power Rises Across South Africa A virtual power plant model is turning South Africa's rooftop solar and battery boom into a…
ScienceHappy Eco News A Victory for the Capurganá and Cabo Tiburón Hope Spot Colombia's expansion of the Acandí Sanctuary in May 2026 extended protection to the Capurganá and Cabo Tiburón Hope…
ScienceSome tumor cells develop resistance by amplifying the KRAS gene, while others change their tumor type, MIT researchers have found.
ScienceHappy Eco News Take Action Global Brings Climate Education for Students Across 183 Countries Take Action Global delivers climate education for students to 6.5 million learners across 183…
ScienceThe injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification A record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat was sunk into the world’s seas last year…
ScienceThe long-standing UN secretary general could have done more to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.
ScienceA hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.
ScienceJ-PAL North America’s Learning Lab supported a second cohort of U.S. government and nonprofit organizations in building and using rigorous evidence to advance effective decarbonization and…
ScienceRibose molecules came to Earth in meteorites and eventually became key parts of RNA. But how they survived in between has been a mystery.
ScienceOur planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and…
ScienceA newly discovered feathered dinosaur named Norellraptor barsboldi had sharply curved teeth and claws, as well as four wings, and it adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several…
ScienceAn elaborate 4,000-year-old defensive wall was discovered in Morocco, and it once protected a thriving farming hub, archaeologists say.
ScienceOur use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist Rebecca Seal recently wrote for the Guardian about…
ScienceThe climate science behind 2026’s super El Niño.
ScienceChina has already implemented many rules governing the use of artificial intelligence.
ScienceHuman beings have always turned to oracles and divination for answers to difficult questions. Today, AI might be fulfilling that role.
ScienceA regional permafrost map can’t tell a builder if a particular foundation or road will survive as temperatures rise. Engineers need to see beneath the surface to find the weaknesses.
ScienceSlasher films have notoriously played into homophobic and transphobic tropes. But queer and trans fans love them anyway, and ‘Camp Miasma’ addresses that tension head-on.
ScienceA 2025 satellite photo shows the Caldas Novas dome, a 12-mile-long monolith that towers above the Brazilian state of Goiás. The structure acts as a giant sponge, soaking up water that helps…
ScienceA U.K. government minister has urged people in Britain to stock up on essentials to prepare for storms magnified by the record-breaking El Niño. Should Americans heed the same advice?
ScienceNew research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon.
ScienceResearchers may have found a missing link in how Earth's mantle gets wet: newly discovered iron minerals that can store water at the extremely high temperatures and pressures present near…
ScienceHappy Eco News Song of the Whale Research Vessel Proved Whales Don’t Need to Die for Science The Song of the Whale research vessel has tracked whales using non-invasive acoustic monitoring…
ScienceHappy Eco News Whale Watchers Play Key Role in Freeing an Entangled Humpback Whale Freeing an entangled humpback whale near Monterey Bay took weeks of tracking, a trained rescue team, and…
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