On the Mekong, Sand Mining Threatens the River and a Method of Life
Phnom Penh is quickly growing, however its development has come at a excessive value to villagers who depend upon the well being of the Mekong River. Filmmaker Andy Ball follows…
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Paris When It Sizzles: The Metropolis of Gentle Goals to Get Sensible on Warmth
There’s an extended custom in France of taking August off for vacation. Paris just about shuts down because the temperature drifts round within the seventies, and folks go to the…
Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future
Rounding the nook close to the village of Rodanthe, there’s a stretch of freeway generally known as the S-Curves due to its twisting loops and turns. It’s, by nearly any…
Can Geothermal Energy Play a Key Function within the Vitality Transition?
A river of sizzling water flows some 3,000 ft beneath Boise, Idaho. And since 1983 the town has been utilizing that water to straight warmth houses, companies, and establishments, together…
In Vermont, a Push to Forestall Flooding or Get Out of the Manner
After floodwaters surged by the middle of Plainfield, Vermont, on July 10, 2023, and into the basement of the house constructing he owned, Arion Thiboumery wasted no time in tackling…
Because the Sea Rises, Will a Prized Nationwide Seashore Wash Away?
On a latest spring morning, Dave Hallac in all probability ought to have been at his desk within the regional places of work of the Nationwide Park Service in Manteo,…
What Will It Take to Save Our Cities from a Scorching Future?
In 2022, a 12 months during which 70,000 Europeans died of heat-related causes, the United Nations named Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili the world’s first-ever world chief warmth officer. A former deputy…
Mistaken Flip: America’s Automotive Tradition and the Street Not Taken
In the event you lived within the suburbs within the Nineteen Seventies, you may see it in your thoughts’s eye: driveway after driveway crammed with Nation Squires and Pontiac Safaris…
Unraveling the Causes of the Pandemic, and Getting ready for the Subsequent
Writer David Quammen was nicely positioned to see the pandemic coming: virtually 10 years earlier, he had written a e-book referred to as Spillover: Animal Infections and the Subsequent Human…
Equitable Retreat: The Want for Equity in Relocating Coastal Communities
As seas rise and coastal storms intensify, policymakers and low-lying cities across the globe are more and more wrestling with the fact of needing to relocate whole communities to increased,…