Environmentalists and local residents are sounding the alarm after the Biden administration approved two new liquefied natural gas terminals for the Texas coast. The administration has billed the e…
Author: Saul Elbein
Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat tha…
Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology off…
AUSTIN, Texas: Real estate developer Douglas Gilliland believes the future of housing lies underground. Amid the unseasonal heat of late February — as neighborhoods across the state hummed with the…
Customers who shop at Whole Foods are getting their groceries with a side order of plastic, a new report has found. After early progress in removing single-use plastic from its stores, Whole Foods&…
The U.S. Air Force is testing new technology that could let brew jet fuel from the air. That’s part of an attempt to create a decentralized supply chain for jet fuel — allowing future America…
Scientists at oil giant ExxonMobil accurately forecast present-day climate change going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new study has found. The findings by Harvard and the Potsdam Instit…
A planned expansion in natural gas export facilities could wreck large swaths of the Louisiana coast, a local citizen group warned on Tuesday. Two liquified natural gas (LNG) export plants at…
Future concrete buildings could be made more durable — and environmentally friendly — using the long-lost building techniques of ancient Rome, a new study has found. Use of an ancient Roman c…
A new study suggests rats can change the behavior of coral reef fish by interrupting the flow of nutrients through the ecosystem. Studying the presence of rats on Indian Ocean coral islands, resear…