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An overturned barge has been leaking oil into the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, prompting authorities on the island nation to declare a state of emergency. Satellite imagery showed parts of the Trinidadian coast dyed black from the spill, and the leak began reaching nearby Venezuela and Grenada. Farley Augustine, …
Roughly half of the land targeted by a major tech-backed forest restoration campaign in Africa was never meant to be forest, according to a new analysis. Planting trees in the identified area could actually harm grasslands and savannas that may have been inadvertently mislabeled as “forests” in need of help, the report concludes. The …
In the past century, fossil-fuel-intensive technologies have become ubiquitous in the US (Ritchie and Roser, 2017). Fossil fuels are heavily involved in the production, use, and disposal/recycling/reuse of these technologies. Credit: Journal of Cleaner Production (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140074 Throughout human history, technologies have been used to make people’s lives richer and more comfortable, but …
The mysterious new weapon might threaten satellites in Earth’s orbit KeyFame/Shutterstock The US government has privately warned lawmakers and European allies that Russia plans to launch a space weapon with possible nuclear capabilities, according to a flurry of reports. The news broke after Mike Turner, chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, issued a …
The mysterious new weapon might threaten satellites in Earth’s orbit KeyFame/Shutterstock The US government has privately warned lawmakers and European allies that Russia plans to launch a space weapon with possible nuclear capabilities, according to a flurry of reports. The news broke after Mike Turner, chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, issued a …
The remains of a dog buried next to a baby Laffranchi et al., 2024, CC-BY 4.0 Almost two decades ago, when construction unearthed a 2,000-year-old Celtic cemetery in what’s now the Italian city of Verona, scientists found the remains of humans buried alongside the other species that were most important to them. A menagerie …
Enlarge / A woman with Long COVID who is completely bedridden, requiring the use of a wheelchair to move between rooms of her home. Over four years after SARS-CoV-2’s debut, researchers still struggle to understand long COVID, including the ostensibly simple question of how many people have it. Estimates for its prevalence vary widely, …
Explore Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth. But some futurists and space settlement enthusiasts have proposed an even more drastic alteration of the space environment: the transformation of the surface of a planet or moon into a more …
Adventurous backpackers and small town residents could soon spend part of their car commute without their hands clutching a steering wheel. By 2025, US carmaker General Motors says it intends to expand its Super Cruise Driver Assistance network to include 750,000 miles of roads in the US and Canada. The latest expansion, which places …
Japanese banks increase funding for late-stage startups to address a lack of capital that has inhibited growth and contributed to Japan’s lack of unicorns. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will invest $350 million between 2023 and 2025 in pre-IPO startups, and Mizuho Financial Group launches a $69 million fund to assess the earning power of …