Articles about environment – Page 4 of 7

Apollo 17 moonwalker Harrison Schmitt stirs up a buzz with climate change views

WASHINGTON, D.C. — I didn’t invite Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt to get his views on climate change, but that’s the… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures lists seven new investments

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion energy innovation fund spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has revealed seven more companies… Read More

Paul Allen enlists machine-learning tools for monitoring wildlife and ecosystems

Paul Allen has made a name for himself as a co-founder of Microsoft, a supporter of artificial intelligence research and… Read More

DNA evidence zeroes in on three African cartels behind illegal elephant ivory trade

DNA evidence and lots of detective work have revealed the networks behind illegal trade in African elephant ivory, centering on… Read More

Final Delta 2 rocket launch puts NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in orbit to monitor ice

NASA kicked off its ICESat-2 mission to monitor our planet’s ice sheets from space using a laser-scanning satellite this morning,… Read More

RIP, J50? Friends of the killer whales mourn emaciated orca, but search goes on

The emaciated and ailing killer whale known as J50 or Scarlet has disappeared from her family group, and experts presume… Read More

Starbucks announces plans to ‘go greener’ at 10,000 of its stores worldwide by 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Two months after Starbucks announced a phase-out of plastic straws, the Seattle-based coffee company is pledging… Read More

A ‘perfect storm’ of wildfires puts Seattle’s terrible air quality in the record books

If this week’s smoky skies seem unprecedented, that’s not far wrong: Thanks to an unusually unfortunate weather pattern, Seattle just… Read More

OceanGate gets Cyclops 1 submersible set for scientific expedition in the Salish Sea

OceanGate had to put off its plan to send a new breed of submersible to the wreck of the Titanic… Read More

Tech titan Elon Musk’s latest cause: Checking for unsafe water in Flint, Mich.

Elon Musk didn’t even wait to get back from his Asia trip to start a new philanthropic campaign, this time… Read More

Antarctic ice loss contribution to global sea level

Warming warning: West Antarctic ice loss rate tripled in 25 years, study shows

An analysis of satellite data collected since 1992 suggests that ocean-driven melting has led to a tripling in the rate… Read More

What Americans want from space: More about Earth, less about moon and Mars

A newly released survey from Pew Research Center suggests that Americans still strongly support the space program, 60 years after… Read More

What caused 2014’s bird die-off on the Pacific coast? Scientists blame the Blob

Researchers have untangled the mystery behind a die-off that felled hundreds of thousands of tough seabirds known as Cassin’s auklets… Read More

Al Gore predicts machine learning and other tech advances will usher in a ‘sustainability revolution’

One of the world’s most visible environmentalists is optimistic about the future of the planet because of technology. Former US… Read More

Do rockets blast away the ozone layer? It’s no biggie today … but watch the skies

Thanks to Blue Origin, SpaceX and other space ventures, the skies could well be filled with rockets in years to… Read More

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Bill Nye talk science (and pipelines) with students

Canada’s highest-ranking science geek, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shared a stage with Bill Nye the Science Guy at the University… Read More

Chinook salmon are shrinking, and Alaska’s killer whales may be among the culprits

King salmon, the big fish that are famous in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, are shrinking — not only in numbers,… Read More

Amazon will pay $1.2M to settle with EPA over illegal pesticide sales

Amazon has reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over “unregistered and misbranded pesticide products” for sale on the… Read More

Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste

PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting… Read More

‘Impossible Flight’ reveals the turmoil and technology of a solar plane’s global trek

From the outside, it looked as if the Swiss-led Solar Impulse project smoothly soldiered through adversity as its solar-powered plane… Read More

Seattle City Light installs first city-owned electric vehicle fast-charging stations

Seattle City Light opened two fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood Tuesday. The facilities allow… Read More

Microsoft will renovate Silicon Valley campus into its ‘smartest, greenest office yet’

A week after announcing plans for a historic redevelopment of its original Redmond, Wash., headquarters, Microsoft this morning unveiled plans… Read More

Majority of new homes in Seattle are ‘Built Green’ for the first time, thanks to city incentives

Environmentally friendly construction has reached a new milestone in Seattle. Last year, the majority of new homes in the city… Read More

Tacoma entrepreneur Eli Moreno kicks off a $50K prize to track Monarch butterflies

Premier Residential CEO Eli Moreno has helped several startups take flight in Western Washington, but his latest venture focuses on… Read More

Satellite readings track how climate change is thinning out mountain glaciers

Elevation readings captured by satellites confirm that glaciers in the western United States are fading away at a worrisome rate.… Read More

NASA’s carbon-monitoring OCO-2 satellite confirms that El Nino weather boosts CO2

Readings from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 have confirmed that the El Niño weather pattern of 2015-2016 was behind the biggest… Read More

Climate Alliance is ‘on track’ for Paris pact with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s support

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee joined with other governors today in New York to declare they’re “squarely on track” to… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen partners with NOAA to explore climate changes in deep ocean water

As we’re breaking records for high temperatures around the globe and watching forest fires blaze across the Northwest, you can… Read More

Startup Spotlight: InPipe Energy harnesses electric power from water running through pipes

Gregg Semler has spent the past 17 years focused on innovations that can make civilization more sustainable, from energy and… Read More

IPCC RCP6.0 projections for temperature rise

Analysis shows global warming will almost certainly break the ‘speed limit’ by 2100

A statistical analysis led by researchers at the University of Washington sees almost no chance that the world’s nations will… Read More