Tag: Climate
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant …
Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to …
5 Takeaways From Our Reporting on Toxic Sludge Fertilizer The Times dug into the widespread use of sewage sludge as fertilizer, which is sometimes heavily contaminated by “forever chemicals.” …
Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain …
Turbine Blades Have Piled Up in Landfills. A Solution May Be Coming. Wind power has a waste problem that has been difficult to solve. Turbine blades made from a …
Canada’s Wildfires Were a Top Global Emitter Last Year, Study Says The blazes produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on …
