From 0 wild birds in 1987 to 300+ returned today, the California condor’s comeback collides with a $200B target, a $1.3T gap, and who gets to decide.
Category: Environment
Explore insights on the environment, focusing on sustainability, preservation, and the importance of a clean and healthy planet for future generations.
During 2020–22, the Upper Colorado Basin lost 4.2 cubic miles of groundwater—almost twice the Lower’s 2.3. Since 2004, the basin is down 14 cubic miles.
A KIER team reports catalysts for ammonia-fueled ship exhaust that hit ~99% removal, run at 350°C, and cost at least 80% less than noble-metal options.
El Niño has Manaus choking—PM2.5 above 135 closed schools—while satellites track a long Amazon fire season and a 40% undercount near Santarém.
A new model of Thwaites Glacier that treats a wide grounding zone doubles projected sea-level rise to 30 mm by 2100 and raises coastal flood risk.
Arabidopsis tunes sideretin and fraxetin to soil pH; root bacteria recycle and siderophore-share to mobilize iron, rescuing plants from deficiency in lab tests.
SFU-led study projects Canadian wildfire costs at $43B per year by 2100 and over $2.1T this century, while excluding major health, evacuation and infrastructure
Study finds fire-driven ozone has cut Amazon carbon uptake by about 24% of fire emissions, with damage focused in the Arc of Deforestation and largely preventab
Europe’s 2026 summer brought 41 days of strong heat stress, 52% under very strong conditions, four top-10 heat waves, and river flows at lows since 1992.
Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in 2026 and nearly 20% in five years, GLAMOS reports, as a record-hot summer pushed melt to the second-biggest on recor