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: Walter Suza
Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
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- Written by: Siddharth Narayan and Michael Beck
The devastating impacts of Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria across the United States and the Caribbean provide tragic reminders of the catastrophic risks we face on our coasts.
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- Written by: Lakshmi Magon
This year, three studies showed that humour is useful for engaging the public about climate change.
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- Written by: Cristine Russell
One year ago, the international scientific community could hardly have expected that Greta Thunberg, a teenager from Sweden, would become one of its greatest allies.
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- Written by: Frédérik Saltré and Corey J. A. Bradshaw
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth.
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- Written by: Stephanie Jenouvrier
The concept of a canary in a coal mine – a sensitive species that provides an alert to danger – originated with British miners, who carried actual canaries underground through the mid-1980s to detect the presence of deadly carbon monoxide gas.
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- Written by: Juan Jose Alava
We live in an era — the Anthropocene — where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems.
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- Written by: Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, et al
The grasslands of the Canadian Prairies are a hidden gem for bird watchers, with millions of migratory birds passing through the area each year.
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- Written by: Mark Maslin
A global coalition of 11,000 scientists has come up with a plan for dealing with the climate emergency.
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- Written by: Stephanie LeMenager
The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American utopia is on fire, too.
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- Written by: Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland
When faced with a rapidly advancing fire threatening a community, it can be hard to know how best to save lives.
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- Written by: Gabriel Recchia and Haydn Belfield
There’s little that the left and the right agree on these days. But surely one thing is beyond question: that national governments must protect citizens from the gravest threats and risks they face.
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- Written by: E. Marie Muehe, et al.
Climate change may cause a dramatic drop in rice production in major growing regions, a decline that could jeopardize critical food supplies, researchers report.
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- Written by: Jennifer M. Bernstein
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the planet and try to make a positive impact through decisions in my day-to-day life.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
In a shocking report the US Army's assessment of its future under the unfolding climate crisis, every American should pause and so should other countries' military.
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- Written by: Abrahm Lustgarten
At the beginning of October 2019, my kids’ preschool informed me that it might be closed the next day because of rolling blackouts — a radical new effort by our local power utility in Northern California to avoid sparking wildfires.
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- Written by: Eoin Higgins
A new report from the International Energy Agency released Friday claims that wind power could be a $1 trillion business by 2040 and that the power provided by the green technology has the potential to outstrip global energy needs.
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- Written by: Nicholas Rajkovich
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United States.
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- Written by: Wolfgang Knorr
As a climate scientist of more than 25 years, I’m proud of the work my profession has done in recent decades to alert humanity to the unfolding climate crisis
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- Written by: Jelena Kecmanovic
A recent study showed that North Americans are becoming less tolerant of uncertainty.
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- Written by: Rob Hopkins
A walk into the future, in a British city where housing is sustainable, energy is locally owned, food is abundant, and the work week is just three days long.
