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Almost Every Turtle Being Born Female Due to Global Warming

All Girl Scientists haven't seen almost any male sea turtle hatch in Florida for years due to record temperatures, Reuters reports. Around 99 percent of all baby sea turtles are being born female in...

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Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate and Energy Bill

Climate Care US Senate Democrats on Sunday passed a piece of legislation that addresses climate change and healthcare through new corporate taxes, Bloomberg reported today. Key energy and environment...

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Supply Chain Shortages Making Hurricane Season Even Scarier

Back Order Multiple state officials are worried that supply chain shortages will worsen an already above-average hurricane season. On Saturday, Fox Business reported that transformers, which convert...

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Lawn Mower Hits Old Pipeline, Spills 180,000 Gallons of Oil

Steer Clear The world's worst landscaper reportedly ran over a 72-year-old oil pipeline in Chester County, Tennessee with an industrial-strength lawnmower — and spilled more than 180,000 gallons of...

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Texas Paid Crypto Mining Company Millions to Not Mine Crypto

Miner No Mining Riot Blockchain, a crypto mining company based in Texas, just told everyone how much it got paid to do absolutely nothing — and it's a hefty sum. Back in July, Riot voluntarily shut...

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At Least 50 Dead in Seasonal Sudan Flooding

Death Toll Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that at least 50 people have died in Sudan because of severe seasonal flooding, and the worst may not yet be over. The water has also damaged at least 8,170...

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China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

When It Rains China's record-breaking heat wave has gotten so bad that parts of the Yanghtze River have gone completely dry. To combat the country's hottest temperatures on record, officials are now...

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Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

Children who are born near fracking sites are as much as three times more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia later on, according to new Yale research. An eight-year study, examining children in...

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Several Companies Are Switching From Cargo Vessels to Wooden Sailing Ships

Back to Basics Everything old is new again — at least in the cargo industry. This week, Insider reported that a handful of companies are ditching expensive cargo vessels that rely on fossil fuels and...

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Ford F-150 Lightning Drivers Who Boost the Power Grid Might Get Paid in North...

Back Up Some North Carolina drivers who own a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck may get paid a little cash to help stabilize the local power grid during peak times, in an interesting example of how...

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Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant

Close Calls Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — the largest in Europe — are making locals increasingly nervous. More than half the residents of the nearby city of Nikopol...

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Saudi Arabia Planning Skyscraper That's 75 Miles Wide

Mirror Line Talk about being extra — the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told engineers and designers he wanted his next architectural project to be...

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UK Authorities Anticipate Energy Blackouts This Winter

Stay Ready The UK is in for a brutal winter this year. The Guardian reports that the BBC has already secretly prepared scripts to read on air in the event of energy shortages causing blackouts or empty...

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France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

Bad Reaction Europe's energy crisis may have just gotten worse. The Wall Street Journal reports that dozens of France's nuclear reactors — which, amid Russia's devastating stranglehold on the...

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Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor

Star Power The race to commercial nuclear fusion is heating up after German startup Proxima Fusion announced that it's raised the equivalent of around $8.6 million to build awild-looking type of...

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Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

Peace, Greenpeace Young climate activist Ia Anstoot believes that the old guard at Greenpeace, one of the world's most prominent environmental groups, should stop its anti-nuclear vendetta, The...

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Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

Tire Fire A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members from the area surrounding the proposed blazes are furious. In interviews with The Guardian,...

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Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones "Continuously"

Lil Chernobyl Imagine never having to change a battery in a device ever again — or, in fact, a battery that could outlive you. That’s what Betavolt, a Chinese tech company, is claiming with its newly...

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Coal Plants Staying Online Because AI Needs So Much Power

Old King Coal The booming AI industry is putting a massive strain on the US's aging electricity grid as energy companies struggle to power the massive data centers that the technology requires,...

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Please Don't Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel...

Spent Fuel In many ways, nuclear power remains a perfectly reasonable stopgap as the world attempts to wean itself off environmentally harmful fossil fuels: it's pretty safe overall, it generates a...

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