Take a look at the map above. That WI-EI Seam is the border between the Western and Eastern interconnections. All the blue in the Midwest marks where wind is an abundant resource. The gold in…
"I don't think there's anybody today that could hold a candle to what those guys could do, both physically and in terms of deep thinking about what they were seeing," Patton says. "We're too keyed…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Our electronic devices take a serious environmental toll, and one of the best ways to mitigate that is to use them for…
But because the researchers couldn’t collect specimens, they can’t yet say what exactly these sponges and other critters could be eating. Some sponges filter organic detritus from the water, whereas others are carnivorous, feasting on…
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Bryan Fry's heart was pounding as he stepped back from the snake enclosure and examined the bite marks on his hand. He…
Having each city build an individual SRI is like developing a national weather forecasting system by asking each county to characterize their local weather, then gathering up all those systems into one cohesive model. “Well,…
Archaeologists in Egypt are preparing to open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, in the coming week. The unexplored tomb is one of 52 burial shafts clustered near the much…
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The number of wild bee species recorded by an international database of life on earth has declined by a quarter since…
The researchers modeled how such winds could have built up snow above the tent, and how long it would have taken to reach a critical load that would cause the top slab to slip off…
This story originally appeared in Canada's National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.An ambitious project to map and monitor sea kelp forests along the entire British Columbia coast is afoot, and scientists…