Environment

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

Yale Environment 360: The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago. By the middle of this century, it could be…

Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr

New York Times: John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability. The gift, which Mr. Doerr is making…

The march of the penguins has a new star: an autonomous robot

Popular Science: In Atka Bay in Antarctica, hundreds of Emperor penguins pack together in a huddle on the vast gleaming sheet of frozen ocean. While they keep warm in the frigid icescape, a yellow cart-like robot slowly and quietly approaches the…

Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – but the war is undoing decades of regreening

The Conversation: An ongoing war between the Ethiopian government and its allies against Tigray, one of its northern states, has led to one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. We…