The Conversation Africaby Craig McGregor, Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University16 Aug 2026
South Africa’s coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next two decades. Currently, coal still supplies 74% of the country’s power.
Environment | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce16 Aug 2026
One of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a livestream of Alaskan brown bears catching...
Gristby Molly Taft, WIRED15 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention.
Latest from Ideal Home in Newsby Sophie King15 Aug 2026
Love Your Garden's Frances Tophill just shared a controversial gardening opinion, and it isn’t about plants – it’s about shed and fence colours.
BBC Newsby Steven McKenzie15 Aug 2026
- Published Highland Council has produced draft guidance aimed at reducing light pollution to give stargazers clearer views of the night sky.
BBC Newsby Emily Johns15 Aug 2026
- Published People across the South West gathered to watch a rare solar eclipse on Wednesday evening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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