Big Tech firms are destroying the environment in a quest for further AI gains, critics claim.

2024 was like that kid in class who always tries to outdo everyone. The planet just hit its hottest year ever. The numbers are truly eye-opening. Global temperatures soared to 1.60°C above ...

Cities are increasingly recognized as active modifiers of extreme rainfall. This Review synthesizes evidence across observations, theory and modeling to assess the mechanisms, robustness and scale ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks released a new report this week highlighting environmental changes and extremes that impact Alaskans and their livelihoods. 'Alaska's Changing Environment' provides ...

A coalition of environmental groups challenged California's leading climate regulator on Wednesday, alleging that a recent update to a leading climate program will create additional pollution in the ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

Environmental justice (EJ) developments continue to reshape the regulatory and enforcement landscape at both the federal and state levels. While the federal government has taken steps to roll back ...

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available. By Austyn Gaffney Amid the torrent of ...

Environmental genomics has focused mainly on prokaryotes, leaving microbial eukaryote diversity poorly understood. Using ~20,000 mitochondrial genomes from 3,400 lake metagenomes worldwide, this study ...