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: Mark Abkowitz
The tornadoes that swept across the Southeast this spring were a warning to communities nationwide:
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- Written by: Nick Davies et al
COVID-19 has radically changed our travel habits in just a matter of weeks. Walking and cycling are up, as people enjoy their daily exercise or take essential journeys they might otherwise have made by public transport.
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- Written by: Fiacha Heneghan
‘We’re doomed’: a common refrain in casual conversation about climate change. It signals an awareness that we cannot, strictly speaking, avert climate change.
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- Written by: Marcus Enoch and James Warren
This isn’t a normal period of disruption, which is usually caused by failures in supply such as road accidents or industrial action. In this case it is the lack of demand that is the problem.
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- Written by: David Korten
Science warns us that the 2020s will be humanity’s last opportunity to save itself from a climate catastrophe.
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- Written by: Wannes Hubau, et al
Tropical forests matter to each and every one of us. They suck colossal quantities of carbon out of the atmosphere, providing a crucial brake on the rate of climate change.
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- Written by: Enrica Papa
Luxembourg recently became the first country in the world to make all public transport free.
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- Written by: Susanne Becken
If you’re a traveller who cares about reducing your carbon footprint, are some airlines better to fly with than others?
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- Written by: Stephan Lewandowsky and John Hunter
Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things – not least, the tragic loss of life, property and landscape.
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- Written by: Boris Kondratieff
Experienced anglers recognize that for a trout, the ultimate “steak dinner” is a stonefly or mayfly.
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- Written by: Matthew Hoffmann and Steven Bernstein
This erasure of one government’s climate project by its successor was only the tip of the melting iceberg.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett
Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York and Sadiq Khan of London on Tuesday urged every major city in the world to divest from the fossil fuel industries that are wrecking the planet.
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- Written by: Luca Panzone and Natasha Auch
How does your food shop affect the planet? Well, think of it like this
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- Written by: Karen Rial-Lovera
Intensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth’s inhabitants, but it’s doing the opposite to earth itself.
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- Written by: Heather Plumpton
Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and restoring the degraded natural world
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- Written by: Andreas Busch
When it comes to tackling climate change the UK is still taking baby steps. A lot more needs to be done – and fast – to hit the 2050 net zero carbon emission targets, which involves offsetting any emissions by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
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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: 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: 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: 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.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue
Materialism may influence us to choose “green buying” rather than not buying anything at all, research finds.
