Category: 9. Environment

A cool house without air conditioning may soon be possible.

Scientists in Singapore have developed a new type of paint that reflects sunlight and cools surfaces by slowly evaporating water. Unlike other commercially available cooling…

At the landmark Paris climate agreement, nearly every country in the world pledged to a goal to limit warming to well below 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels…

Bad news for extreme exercise junkies out there: too much vigorous exercise could temporarily make your immune system less efficient.

At least, that’s what the evidence shows. An analysis from 2023 of over 4,700 post-exercise fluid molecules…

The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the…

Locust outbreaks, which cause considerable crop losses, affect a quarter of the world’s population today. In a recent paper, scientists predict the situation will worsen with…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams began a third day searching for missing people Thursday after floods devastated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province…

THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — A wildfire in Oregon prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and to close nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) of an interstate in…

A fisherman at sea off the coast of Canada recorded something that few humans have ever seen.

Floating serenely amid the pale ice chunks in the Labrador Sea was one iceberg that appeared as black as soot.

Hallur Antoniussen, aboard the fishing…