In what may be the first sign of life detected beyond our Solar System, the James Webb Telescope has detected the signature of a chemical compound that is known to only be produced by biological organisms, in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 124 light years from Earth. Although its detection is stillread more
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began releasing filtered wastewater from the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on August 24, 12 years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three of the plant’s reactors. Despite assurances from TEPCO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the treated water being dischargedread more
A dramatic increase in the amount of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, that has occurred over the past 16 years might be an indicator that a “termination event”, where the planetary climate flips from its current cool interglacial state to a hotter, more tropical one, could occur within a matterread more
While record-breaking wildfires are raging across parts of North America, heavy rains have caused equally-heavy flooding on the east coast of North America and northern India, with a stalled storm causing inundations in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont, with over 14 million residents being underread more