Seven new wind turbines, which will tower over the Golan at the height of Tel Aviv skyscrapers, were given the green light Monday by the National Infrastructure Council. If Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg has her way, they will be the last ones for at least five years. Zandberg saidContinue Reading
Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food systems contribute about a third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts: from soaring temperatures and drought to intense rainfall and flooding. Food production isContinue Reading
RIYADH: The ancient city of the Nabataeans in historic AlUla valley is emerging from the mists of time to put Saudi Arabia on the global tourism map. The Royal Commission of AlUla, or RCU, is keen on achieving this milestone by pressing ahead with an audacious master plan to developContinue Reading
One of the nation’s least populous states, with about 775,000 people, is betting on the future of commercial drones, autonomous farming, and cybersecurity education. North Dakota is distinguished by its Badlands and flat lands, but high above the sky — 60,000 feet, to be exact — drones are being testedContinue Reading
Lew Carter, a retired long haul truck driver, has always preferred the country. In 1990 he bought a small plot on a hill surrounded by farm fields near his home town of Williams, in Hamilton county, Iowa, where he hoped to retire. Carter planted the homestead with a thicket ofContinue Reading
For those who celebrate, Happy Easter. For those who don’t, let me tell you a more secular story about hope and regeneration. Regenerative agriculture comprises a set of farming practices that helps crops most efficiently pull carbon from the air and sink it underground to improve soil health, combat climateContinue Reading
Model validation To validate the performance of the WRF model, we examined the simulated track and MSLP of Tropical Storm Haitang, and precipitation during the study period against observations. The cyclone best track data and central minimum sea level pressure (MSLP) were obtained from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) typhoonContinue Reading
POINT JUDITH, R.I. – Robert Ballinger watches every inch of a long green net as it unfurls from a spool on the back of this boat, the Lena Pearl, one of dozens of fishing vessels packed into a tiny harbor in America’s smallest state. He’s concentrating, looking for any tears orContinue Reading
The simple way to think about this crisis: There’s no longer enough water to go around to meet the needs of farmers and Native American populations as well as fish and birds. For more than a century, the federal government has overseen an intricate and imperfect system of water distributionContinue Reading
CLINTON As a four-seat plane flew over Sampson County’s landfill last Wednesday, the stench reached 2,000 feet into the air and filled the cabin. Richard Moore, the co-chair of the White House’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council and a longtime environmental justice advocate who is based in New Mexico, was oneContinue Reading
