By: James Holbrooks/ANTIMEDIA — Allegiances are solidifying in the Asia-Pacific. On Friday, China, which has remained relatively quiet as tensions have spiked between the United States and North Korea over the past week, recognized that “it needs to make clear its stance to all sides” and did so in an editorial in its state-run Global Times: “China should also make clear that…
Trump’s Border Wall Will Be Exempt From All Environmental Laws
By: Katy Evans/IFL Science Trump is forging ahead with his US-Mexico border wall in an attempt to keep at least one of his promises on the campaign trail – and he’s not letting a little thing like laws get in his way. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will waive environmental laws and regulations that would get…
An Unbelievably Massive Volcanic Engine Has Just Been Found Hiding Under Washington
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Something fiery lives beneath Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park – a huge upwelling of superheated mantle material, in fact, which is melting the crust and generating a huge supply of magma. It’s an unstoppable torrid force that will outlive our own species. This is well-established, but a dramatic new study reveals that it has a friend….
American Honeybees Are Doing Better In 2017
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science Good news bee-lovers and people who like to eat fruit, vegetables, and nuts! The US bee population has increased in 2017, with the number of bees disappearing due to colony collapse disorder significantly smaller than it was in 2016. According to a honeybee health survey from the US Department of Agriculture, the number of…
A Garbage Patch The Size Of Mexico Was Just Discovered In The Pacific Ocean
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Scientists have found another patch of plastics, human trash, and chemical sludge deep within in a remote pocket of the Pacific Ocean. Much like the more northerly “Great Pacific garbage patch” found between Hawaii and mainland US, it’s definitely not good news. The new patch was recently confirmed by a project led…
California Sets Its Sights On Being 100 Percent Renewable By 2045
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science California is a powerhouse of clean energy. Not only does it have a long history of investing in hydro, wind, and solar power, but its current governor, Democrat Jerry Brown, is ensuring that the state sticks to the goals of the Paris agreement even if the White House foolishly eschews it. Now, a pair of…
France’s Effort To Steal America’s Climate Scientists Is Working
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Back in February, before his successful election as the President of the French Republican, Emmanuel Macron had a message for Americans beleaguered federal scientists: come to France. Eventually, details emerged of a program, mischievously entitled “Make Our Planet Great Again,” that set aside $69 million and four-year-long research grants for climate scientists that took…
Africa Set To “Leapfrog” Over Coal And Choose Renewable Energy Instead
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Despite America’s temporary lack of leadership on the climate crisis, there is a good chance that a prolonged catastrophe can be avoided. Thanks to a combination of market forces, an unprecedented surge in climate activism, and the increasingly concrete global cooperation on the issue, renewable energy is proliferating across the planet like never before….
Humans Have Produced Over 8 Billion Tons Of Plastic, Enough To Completely Cover Argentina
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science If things carry on as they are, we will eventually bury the planet in plastics. That is the conclusion of a new study that has looked into just how much plastic humans have created, and where it all goes. In the first global analysis of the production of plastics, researchers have calculated…