5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (781+ words) Until 1999, emissions held steady at around 6.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Between 2015 and 2024 they averaged 5 billion tonnes, and in 2025 they fell to 4.1 billion tonnes. The main reasons are that permanent deforestation has decreased and that new forest absorbs…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (616+ words) Deforestation fell 36 percent from the previous year and was 55.6 percent below the average of the past ten years. That is according to new satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, INPE. The decline has continued since 2023. Deforestation in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (659+ words) High temperatures pushed electricity demand in Texas to record levels in late July. The old record was broken two days in a row. Still, ERCOT, which runs the state's grid, did not need to ask residents to conserve electricity. Such…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (650+ words) Emissions rose 0.2 percent compared with the first half of 2025. Between 2015 and 2023, they grew by an average of 1.1 percent per year. China and the United States, the world's two largest emitters, saw their emissions fall by 0.3 and 0.4 percent respectively. Global greenhouse…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (677+ words) The Sahel is the semi-arid belt south of the Sahara, stretching around 500 miles wide from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east. More than 150 million people live there. In the 1970s and 1980s the region was hit by severe drought....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (982+ words) That the news media are one long doomscroll makes us all a little dumb. But how unbalanced are they? I have built a news scale. I'm all thumbs, but I can now build houses, I wrote a couple of weeks…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (567+ words) The numbat was close to extinction. By the late 1970s, only around 300 individuals remained. After more than 40 years of conservation work, the population has grown to between 2,000 and 3,000 individuals. The IUCN has now moved the species from the endangered category to…...