Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths
BBC Newsby Emily Johns15 Aug 2026
- Published People across the South West gathered to watch a rare solar eclipse on Wednesday evening.
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top 81%Jal Jeevan Mission at 7: Rural Tap Water Coverage Hits 82%
Prakati Indiaby Prakati India15 Aug 2026
Seven years ago, if you lived in rural India, the odds were roughly five to one that your home did not have a tap connected to a water supply.
Sustainable Packaging: Meaning, Types & Alternatives (2026)
Prakati Indiaby Prakati India15 Aug 2026
Pick up almost anything in an Indian shop today — snacks, cosmetics, an online order — and you will find it wrapped in more plastic than the product itself needs.
Researchers find reading maps is good for our brains: 'Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's'
Good Good Goodby Hatim Sharif14 Aug 2026
Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.
Invasives impact in Global South needs more attention
Mongabay Indiaby Arathimenon14 Aug 2026
Global biodiversity assessments have often suggested that the impacts of invasive alien species are greatest in wealthy countries of the Global North.
Choose a Place Worth the Trip Even If the Sky Does Nothing
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story14 Aug 2026
Here is the failure mode nobody warns you about. You book a week in a country you chose because it appeared on a list of the best places to see the northern lights. You arrive.
Not Where It's Warm. Where January Is the Only Way In.
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story14 Aug 2026
Every winter sun list is the same list. Somewhere with a beach, ranked by average January temperature, with a paragraph about resorts.
The ‘new reality’ of B.C. wildfires is anything but ‘normal’ | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Francesca Fionda14 Aug 2026
The wildfire that tipped B.C. into a state of emergency this August was described as “a bomb going off” to Premier David Eby by a fire official.
Disappearing grasslands impact bird populations, study finds
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey14 Aug 2026
- A study from the shola sky islands in the southern Western Ghats reveals how land use changes have changed bird movements.
Q&A: What does China’s 15th five-year plan for coal mean for climate action? - Carbon Brief
Carbon Briefby Anika Patel14 Aug 2026
China has published a new five-year plan for coal, the latest in a slew of important policy documents for the country’s energy transition.
The fraught politics and ethics of climate rankings [Commentary]
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey14 Aug 2026
- India’s poor score on the 2026 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has reignited an old debate about fairness with developing countries.
In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half
Yale E360by Nicola Jones14 Aug 2026
A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to...
Tiger joyfully jumps out of truck into new nature reserve where her species hasn't been seen in 70 years
Good Good Goodby Yenni Kwok14 Aug 2026
Kazakhstan has released its first tiger into the wild more than seven decades since the last confirmed sighting of the big cat in the country.
Small businesses at the gateways to America’s national parks face 4 big risks – including changing boundaries and extreme weather
The Conversation (US)by Nancy Forster-Holt, Clinical Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Rhode Island14 Aug 2026
A record 332 million people visited U.S. national parks in 2024, followed by roughly 323 million in 2025. That’s a lot of love for national parks and lands.
Zabaikalsky Region Declares State of Emergency Following Summer Flooding - The Moscow Times
The Moscow Timesby The Moscow Times14 Aug 2026
Authorities in Far East Russia’s Zabaikalsky region declared a state of emergency on Thursday following a summer of torrential rainfall and three consecutive flood waves.
Running dry: drought-hit UK sporting venues and parched pitches – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby Guardian sport14 Aug 2026
With the UK experiencing the driest summer on record, we look at how the weather is affecting the pitches and courses across the country
The EPA's data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey14 Aug 2026
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same question.
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can
Gristby Frida Garza14 Aug 2026
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country.
Coal Mining Reforms Put Regulation in Private Hands | 2026
Frontlineby Akshay Deshmane14 Aug 2026
In late 2025, the Union Coal Ministry amended the Colliery Control Rules to scrap a legal obligation on mining companies to seek permission from the Coal Controller’s Organisation, a regulatory...
Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk
War on the Rocksby Morgan D. Bazilian14 Aug 2026
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