Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst
Green growth has emerged as the dominant narrative for tackling contemporary environmental problems.
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- Written by: Andrew King, et al
Over the past few days there has been a lot of talk about the Paris climate agreement, from which the United States is planning to withdraw.
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- Written by: Ian Wright and Jason Reynolds
Removing salts and other impurities from water is really difficult. For thousands of years people, including Aristotle, tried to make fresh water from sea water.
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- Written by: Nicholas Beuret
Those least responsible for global warming will suffer the most. Poorer countries – those that have contributed far less to climate change – tend to be situated in warmer regions, where additional warming causes the most devastation.
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- Written by: David Wallace-Wells
Climate change is no longer a financial problem, just a political one. Mitigating climate change by decarbonizing our economy would add trillions of dollars in new investments
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- Written by: Roland Ennos, University of Hull
In cities around the world, trees are often planted to help control temperatures and mitigate the effects of the “urban heat island”. But while trees have been called “nature’s air conditioners”, in practice, scientists often have difficulty demonstrating their cooling properties.
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- Written by: Amin Al-Habaibeh
Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be.
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- Written by: Alf Hornborg
I have eagerly awaited the final season of Game of Thrones, and its strange blend of fictive medieval Britain, supernatural monsters and pornography.
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- Written by: Jackson Holtz
Managed retreat in the face of sea level rise will be a mixed bag, researchers predict.
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- Written by: Chris Hawes
According to a recent major UN report, if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5 °C and prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to reduce global CO? emissions to net zero by 2050.
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- Written by: Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief
Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades.
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- Written by: David Attenborough, BBC
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
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- Written by: Keith Harary
You might find your car dying on the freeway while other vehicles around you lose control and crash.
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- Written by: Democracy Now!
Supporters of the Green New Deal are launching a nationwide tour Thursday to build support for the congressional resolution to transform the U.S. economy through funding renewable energy while ending
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- Written by: Democracy Now!
As the push for the Green New Deal builds momentum in the United States, The Intercept has released a short illustrated video imagining a future shaped by the progressive environmental movement.
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- Written by: Dagomar Degroot
Many of us think that rapid environmental change is a quintessentially modern crisis.
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- Written by: Harrison Tasoff
The Sierra Nevada mountain streams that naturalist John Muir extolled are now in peril, research finds.
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg
The only explanation for why heat waves affected so many areas over several months last summer is climate change, according to new research.
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- Written by: Matthew Carl Ives, et al
Search online for “climate change” and “tipping points” and you’ll find some scary results.
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- Written by: Steve Orlando
Nearly half a billion more people could be at risk for contracting mosquito-borne diseases in the next 30 years as a result of climate change.
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- Written by: Shuang-Ye Wu
Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades.
