The cooling tower of France’s first direct air capture (DAC) prototype by the company Yama, in Drancy (north of Paris), July 21, 2025. YAMA At first glance, it would go unnoticed. Erected behind a factory in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, the cooling tower looks like an ordinary industrial installation: a 3.5-meter-high metal box…
Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is increasingly vulnerable to flooding because of rising sea levels Getty Images There has been an abrupt change in the rate of sea level rise as measured by satellites. Around 2012, it suddenly accelerated and has remained higher ever since. It is possible that the sudden jump is mainly…
The final two sessions of an environmental learning series in Dorset are set to take place next month. Wimborne u3a and Planet Wimborne are inviting people to take part in the final Greener Wimborne, Better Planet events this June, part of a five-part programme that began with talks in April. The events aim to blend…
A free family event celebrating the wildlife and beauty of the south coast is taking place in the New Forest this month. Coastal Celebration will be held on the grass area, immediately to the east of The Needles Eye café in Hurst Road in Milford-on-Sea on Saturday, May 30, between 10am and 3pm. The event…
There’s never a good time for a tractor to break down, but this was exceptional timing. Late April was very dry as predicted, and with a change in weather prospects, the birdfood seed needed to go in. The purpose of this “crop” is to fill the birds’ winter hunger gap, and it has to be sown in a narrow window:…
Only when Yorkshire’s landscapes are linked does nature thrive, from the haunting call of a curlew to a lapwing’s cry. Now a new forest, with 80,000 trees at Bolton Abbey, is to help build a revival. The huge project, over 90 hectares, could also help the River Wharfe‘s waters run clear once more. Estate Manager,…
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The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young scientist wanting to understand the math and science governing how river channels should behave. After disembarking at Harvard College and searching the stacks of its library, Henry David Thoreau checked out “Principes D’Hydraulique,” a three-volume tome…
Wimborne u3a and Planet Wimborne are inviting people to take part in the final two sessions of, Greener Wimborne, Better Planet in June. Source link
Patricio Hernandez lives on the northern outskirts of Chile’s capital Santiago, a hilly area below the Andes mountains which he and other residents fear could be devastated by a major Amazon data center complex. Source link
