WindBorne bags US Air Force contract worth $49 million for Weather Balloon Data
The US Air Force will buy data from WindBorne Systems’ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a contract worth up to $49 million, the largest[…]
“You Cannot Drink Data”: Google’s $15 Billion Vizag AI Hub Faces Backlash Over Land, Water and Power
Campaign posters in Visakhapatnam show Google’s logo in handcuffs, and another warns that people “cannot drink data.” The images capture a growing backlash against the[…]
Nepal hit by another deadly flood: Landslide-dammed Budhi Gandaki bursts, sweeping away homes and bridges
Nepal’s mountains have delivered another flood. A landslide blocked the Budhi Gandaki River in Gorkha district on Sunday, and when the temporary barrier gave way,[…]
South Korea Unveils $747 Billion Green Plan to Cut Fossil Fuel Dependence, but the Grid Is the Hard Part
South Korea has put a price tag of up to one quadrillion won, about $747 billion, on its attempt to reduce its dependence on imported[…]
Deciphering Super El Niño: What it means for India’s fields, the world’s food bills and everyday life
India’s southwest monsoon closed on September 30 as its weakest in more than a decade, and the weather pattern widely blamed for it is not[…]
The World’s Tallest Dam Is Rising Again — And So Are Warnings About Who and What Gets Displaced
Fifty thousand people are expected to be displaced by the reservoir of Tajikistan’s Rogun Dam, and the Amu Darya River basin — already under significant[…]
Amazon Doesn’t Know How to Hit Its Own Climate Target — And That’s a Bigger Problem Than It Sounds
Amazon’s chief sustainability officer said something on Tuesday that companies of its size almost never say out loud: the company doesn’t actually know how it’s[…]
World Rhino Day 2026: Why Climate Change Is Now as Big a Threat to Rhinos as the Poacher’s Bullet
For decades, the story of rhino conservation has been told almost entirely through the lens of poaching — organized crime syndicates, illegal horn markets, and[…]
What Really Caused Nepal’s Deadliest Flood in Decades? A Look Inside the Science
On the morning of August 26, 2026, a chunk of rock and glacier ice roughly 2,000 feet wide sheared off Langtang Lirung, a mountain on[…]
The US Just Tore Up Its Power Plant Climate Rules — Here’s What That Means for the Planet
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently signed a final rule repealing the carbon pollution standards that had governed America’s coal and gas-fired power plants. This is[…]
