The world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity's future energy needs.
General Physics
Dec 1, 2023
1
1514
Australia is about to take a big, constructive step on climate change policy: we will have a carbon price for the industry sector, under the safeguard mechanism.
Environment
Mar 30, 2023
0
4
The UK's equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, has announced a review of the list of countries whose gender recognition certificates are recognized by the UK. This could mean that transgender people from more than 40 countries ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2023
0
0
Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050.
General Physics
Dec 7, 2022
8
51
The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the "myth of the blitz"—the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2022
0
11
Fresh emissions targets from Saudi Arabia and Australia—two of the world's largest fossil-fuel producers—are due to arrive just in time for global climate talks in Glasgow. These would commit the two countries to reducing ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2021
0
25
A moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia's resort island of Bali early Saturday, killing at least three people and destroying dozens of homes.
Environment
Oct 16, 2021
0
27
Cuba evacuated 180,000 people amid fears Sunday that Tropical Storm Elsa could cause heavy flooding after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.
Environment
Jul 5, 2021
0
4
Three days a week, Don Weber shows up to work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture campus in Beltsville, Md. The parking lot is empty and the hallways are dark. Like other federal facilities across the country, the lab is ...
Ecology
Jan 18, 2019
0
7
Seven people were missing and hundreds of others evacuated from their homes after Cyclone Mekunu hit the Yemeni island of Socotra Wednesday night, causing severe flooding and damage to houses, officials said.
Environment
May 24, 2018
0
36
