Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Science

• Why children like me have a right to be heard at the People’s Blockade of the Newcastle coal port | Frankie Kelly
• Pentagon's top UFO investigator lists 3 cases that his team has yet to solve
• FEMA Director Says Criticism Of Agency Is Misinformation
• Families need affordable housing, but New York residents use red tape to block development
• Water security: is it a government priority?
• Australian researchers have devised a way to help surfers avoid attacks from great white sharks
• SpaceX Plans 6th Starship Flight Test, Repeat Midair Rocket Catch
• The tide is turning against the green elites
• In the wake of Trump’s win, a top climate scientist finds strength in the Bible
• How to dent the Bureau of Land Management
• These down-ballot election results will slow states' transition to clean energy
• As EPA czar, Lee Zeldin should scrap these three awful Biden rules FAST
• A punishing Australian summer is coming. Here’s what you can do now to beat the heat
• Mayor of Florida town where FEMA workers skipped over homes with Trump signs wants those involved held accountable
• The UK has talent in abundance. We need to nurture it
• Shaping the future of medicine
• Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot
• Trump must trash Biden’s radical ‘environment justice’ rules on Day 1
• GOP lawmakers are demanding answers from FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell after one of her employees instructed relief workers to skip homes of Trump supporters
• Trump's claims about FEMA's handling of Helene were clumsy and easily refutable, but the agency's track record is a case study in bureaucratic mismanagement
• Richard Nixon created the EPA in response to a broad sense of environmental crisis in the U.S
• Supreme Court Refuses to Resurrect the Kids Climate Case
• In 1913, Ludwig Wittgenstein told Bertrand Russell that he was planning to live by the fjords until he had solved the central questions in logic
• Oxford University student's iPad explodes during maths lecture
• Trump’s next EPA administrator is a lawyer, not an environmentalist
• Joe Bastardi: Paris Accords are a waste of money and a useless feel-good exercise
• Trump’s pick of Lee Zeldin for EPA shows he’s serious about protecting the economy and the environment
• Why Keir Starmer is staying green
• America's delegation diminished by Trump's win as UN climate summit commences
• Evolved Brains in Evolved Bodies
• Why Did Brooklyn’s Biggest Park Light Up in Flames?
• Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
• Trump and climate change policy
• Trump picks New York Rep. Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency
• The renewable energy revolution is unstoppable
• A strange new ally in the fight to reduce atmospheric carbon: Chonkus
• Trump vs. California values is the fight voters deserve - Washington Examiner
• We can prepare for hurricanes, heatwaves and flooding – but only if we are bold at Cop29 | Ban Ki-moon
• Can green energy solutions deliver for nature and people?
• London's net zero transition must uplift everyone
• Washington State Keeps Cap-and-Invest Its Climate Plan
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news
• Emma Pinchbeck: "When I see pylons, I see protection. Not harm"
• A Key Part of the Effort Against Climate Change Has Taken Hold for Good. Yes, Even Under Trump.
• Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own | George Monbiot
• Donald Trump "will take a wrecking ball to global climate diplomacy”
• Donald Trump is a climate disaster
• Life-threatening storm surge, damaging hurricane-force winds, and flash flooding expected in parts of western Cuba
• Is there a crying need to reimagine the two casts of mind at the heart of modern politics?
• Do people become less sociable with age? Not me – I’ve barely stopped since turning 90 | Sheila Hancock
• A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World
• I tried to warn Valencia’s government about flooding, but it didn’t listen | Juan Bordera
• Washingtonians uphold state’s climate change program
• Oxfam says $41 billion of the World Bank’s climate spending ‘effectively unaccounted for’ - ICIJ
• Hurricane Helene destroyed North Carolina's hills, hollows, and mountains
• Mud boots of empathy in Spain
• 8 states where the planet is on the ballot today
• Sunrise Movement Targets Climate Voters—and the Dangers of Trump
• I’m an epidemiologist, and I’m still using my black plastic spatula. Here’s why
• Why did so many die in Spain? Because Europe still hasn't accepted the realities of extreme weather | Friederike Otto
• The Climate Crisis Is a Cost-of-Living Crisis
• Private calls and campaign cash: Inside Louisiana regulators’ ties to the utilities they oversee
• We are in danger of forgetting what the climate crisis means: extinction | Martha Gill
• Courting the climate vote in Pennsylvania
• We Can Finally Flush Our Toilets in Asheville. But Getting Drinking Water Is Still an Issue.
• Environmental justice? Not if Project 2025 has a say.
• Climate chaos will define the next presidency
• Energy prices have skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration. Who will rid us of this meddlesome, disastrous policy?
• The energy culture war Is on the ballot in one of America's greenest states
• Activists profiting off panic are wrong. The world is getting better.
• Federally subsidized semiconductor firms receive special exemption from environmental regulation
• New theory reconciles quantum theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity
• The Coming Drone Wars – Paul Schwennesen
• Britain is closing its eyes to long Covid. That’s not how to stop it ravaging lives and livelihoods | Devi Sridhar
• If Kamala Harris wants to lower energy costs in Puerto Rico, she should support repeal of the Jones Act
• A solid majority of young Americans is very worried about climate change
• Let’s be clear, Peter Dutton’s energy plan is more focused on coal and gas than it is on nuclear power | Adam Morton
• In Western North Carolina, Hurricane Helene has stripped the region of its appeal as a climate sanctuary
• The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) is a global network of newsrooms dedicated to exposing environmental crime
• The 'degrowth' mentality promises a world of poverty and misery
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz?
• NASA’s Worldview Site Expands Data and Environmental Reporter’s Toolbox
• Governor Tim Walz’s embrace of a left-wing climate agenda resulted in higher energy prices for Minnesota residents, a new report finds
• This England: Cleaned the place out
• How an Alabama coal mine expansion tests the Biden administration
• The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration
• Globalist Misinformation: No, the Earth is Not Warming
• Western Australia is tearing up environmental protections – and taking a bet the rest of the country won’t notice | Carmen Lawrence
• Weather reporters are crucial to educating the public on the climate crisis | Katrina vanden Heuvel
• SpaceX vs Cards Against Humanity: Satellite Imagery Shows Activity on Land at Centre of Legal Case - bellingcat
• Where does the next US president stand on the climate?
• Trump visits western North Carolina to thank first responders for helping storm victims
• Planning reform is high on the government’s agenda and must deliver the homes and infrastructure the country needs
• Catching the Starship: A Breakthrough for Humanity
• Pay attention to what Democrats do, not what they say
• Carbon capture is not the answer to the climate crisis
• In Swannanoa, North Carolina, Hurricane Helene wiped out the town
• CFACT's Craig Rucker says the climate-left is playing politics with Florida's devastating hurricanes
• The Biden-Harris federal bureaucracy continues to be the largest purveyor of climate lies, says Peter Murphy
• The stench of my local landfill points to a massive problem that Britain isn’t solving | Jennifer Sizeland