Tag: environment
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on. Processing the seaweed into...
Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service
WASHINGTON – A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the...
U.S. will build sterile fly factory in Texas to stop screwworm from devastating livestock industry
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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic
An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts.
Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC BY 4.0)The scientists found that,...
You shape the world through your mind
By John-Michael Lawrence
If practitioners of different religions claim results, maybe the seeds of those results are in the practitioners themselves, not the dogma.
John-Michael Lawrence...
Texas identifies the 119 people killed in Hill Country floods
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
MIAMI – A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of...
Trump’s push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred
BETHEL, Alaska – Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside...
Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health
The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially shutting off an...
Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the power grid
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