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The Mammoth carbon-removal plant near Reykjavik uses geothermal energy to extract carbon dioxide from the air and store it in bedrock. Credit: John Moore/Getty Net zero. This simple accounting term represents humanity’s greatest challenge — and opportunity — to stabilize

Image credits: Yusheng Deng. The first blossoms of the season popped open last week in Tokyo. At the Yasukuni Shrine, a lone Somei Yoshino tree revealed just enough blooms—five, to be exact—for the Japan Meteorological Agency to declare the 2025

Illustration / Courtney Jones; Greg Nash; and Adobe Stock Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do

A serviceman from an all-volunteer unit in southeastern Ukraine, on April 27, 2024. (Ukrinform / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Imagine two scales. The first one is a timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with its war crimes, destruction, and

Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with hundreds of people to breed drought-resistant varieties, develop new ways

In the 2004 film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, most of Earth’s northern hemisphere is smothered in a blanket of snow when Earth’s system of ocean currents collapses . Although consigned to the world of sci-fi for now, scientists fear that

Climate change could pose a dual threat to native species by reducing their suitable habitats and increasing predation pressure from non-native species, a new study by Oregon State University researchers finds. The effects of climate change and biological invasions on

The global goal of eradicating extreme poverty, defined as living on $2.15 per person per day, by 2030 remains a formidable challenge, increasingly threatened by the growing impacts of climate change experts are saying. According to the World Bank, nearly