Thousands of delegates have descended upon Geneva this week for what’s supposed to be the culmination of years of negotiations that, if successful, are supposed to end in a groundbreaking global plastics treaty. They might be breathing in the very thing they’re trying to clean up as they negotiate. Greenpeace tested the air around the […]
Can deleting old emails and photos help the UK tackle ongoing drought this year? That’s the hope, according to recommendations for the public included in a press release today from the National Drought Group. There are far bigger steps companies and policymakers can take to conserve water of course, but drought has gotten bad enough […]
Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s worse than last time. It’s also, seemingly, just the beginning – paving the way forward for the president’s polluting agenda. A watchdog group that monitors publicly-available environmental […]
The Trump administration put out its vision for AI infrastructure in the US last week. It’s a dream for the fossil fuel and chemical industries – and a nightmare for wind and solar energy and the environment. An “AI Action Plan” and flurry of executive orders Donald Trump signed last week read like manifestos on […]
Activists around the world are calling attention to harassment they’ve faced on Meta’s platforms. More than 90 percent of land and environmental defenders surveyed by Global Witness, a nonprofit organization that also tracks the murders of environmental advocates, reported experiencing some kind of online abuse or harassment connected to their work. Facebook was the most-cited […]
At an AI and fossil fuel lovefest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, President Donald Trump – flanked by cabinet members and executives from major tech and energy giants like Google and ExxonMobil – said that “the most important man of the day” was Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin. “He’s gonna get you a permit […]
“I’m probably the only architect who created a final home,” Bob Hendrikx tells The Verge. Tombs and catacombs aside, Hendrikx might be the only one to make a final home using mushrooms. Hendrikx is the founder and CEO of Loop Biotech, a company that makes caskets out of mycelium, the fibrous root structure of mushrooms. […]
Flash floods have wrought more havoc in the US this week, from the Northeast to the Midwest, just weeks after swollen rivers took more than 130 lives across central Texas earlier this month. Frustrations have grown in the aftermath of that catastrophe over why more wasn’t done to warn people in advance. Local officials face […]
The factory will develop a series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.
As The Verge’s resident disaster writer, I’m tired of this nonsense. So let’s just get into it. What is cloud seeding? Cloud seeding is basically an attempt to make precipitation fall from clouds. It targets clouds that have water droplets that are essentially too light to fall. Scientists at MIT learned in the 1940s that […]