A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West.
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122 Companies Are Quietly Sucking the West Dry, Study Finds
A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West.
Sunken WWI and WWII Ships and Subs Are Leaking TNT Pollution Into the Ocean
Researchers used test mussels to confirm that shipwrecked TNT has leaked toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the North Sea.
Sunken WWI and WWII Ships and Subs Are Leaking TNT Pollution Into the Ocean
Researchers used test mussels to confirm that shipwrecked TNT has leaked toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the North Sea.
This ‘Little Planet’ Is a Surreal Record of How We’ve Changed Nature—and It’s a Science Photo Contest Winner
Celebrate the beauty of nature—and the science that teaches us about it—with winning photography from the researchers themselves.
This ‘Little Planet’ Is a Surreal Record of How We’ve Changed Nature—and It’s a Science Photo Contest Winner
Celebrate the beauty of nature—and the science that teaches us about it—with winning photography from the researchers themselves.
Scientists Planted Telecom Cables to Find ‘Thunderquakes.’ Here’s What Happened
“A storm in the sky can help us see underground.”
Scientists Planted Telecom Cables to Find ‘Thunderquakes.’ Here’s What Happened
“A storm in the sky can help us see underground.”
Scientists Think We’re Overestimating a Promising Fusion Reactor Ingredient
It takes a lot to survive fusion reactions.
The US Is Building a New Truck for Nukes, So Naturally It Smashed One Into a Wall
… For science, obviously.
Rising Temperatures Are Turning Antarctica Into a ‘Hotspot’ for This Toxic Pollutant
A new study paints a grim picture of toxic heavy metal pollution in Antarctica.
Data Centers Will Eat 12% of US Electricity by 2030. This Platinum Fuel Cell Fix May Help
Researchers may have figured out how to help hydrogen fuel cells become a more practical energy source for data centers and other energy-intensive technologies.
‘Super’ El Niño Could Push Earth’s Temperature 13 Years Ahead of the Current Warming Trend
This event will give the world a taste of our future climate, according to a new analysis.
Climate Change Has Unleashed an Entirely New Type of Heatwave: The ‘Snow Eater’
“Snow-eater” heatwaves decimate the snowpack that western states depend on.
A Legendary Flood in Medieval Europe Wasn’t a Single Disaster—It Was 16 of Them
The findings offer important lessons about crisis response, as well as the interconnectedness of natural disasters.
Forests Withered During an Ancient Warming Episode. History Could Repeat Itself
Millions of years ago, rapid global warming dramatically altered Earth’s forests. Human-driven climate change is working 10 times faster.
HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library
HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library…
Fedora Rejects Proposal To Use systemd For Managing Per-User Environment Variables
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee “FESCo” this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd’s environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables…
NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support
Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions…
Turbulence at the Documentation Foundation
Michael Meeks has posted an
angry missive about changes at the Document Foundation. What has
really happened is not entirely clear, but it seems to involve, at a
minimum, the forced removal of all Collabora staff from the foundation.
There has been a set of “thank you” notes to the people involved posted in the
foundation’s forums. The Document Foundation’s decision to restart LibreOffice Online almost
certainly plays into this as well.
Details are fuzzy at best; we will be working at providing a clearer
picture, but that will take some time.