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  1. The Perovskite Solar Cell Kraken Has Been Unleashed Upon The US

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:08:20 -0000

    Perovskite is a relatively inexpensive material that has attracted thousands of researchers since 2009, when a team of scientists in Japan first …

  2. The Case Against Chuck Schumer

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Democrats just won a historic victory. The party’s base still wants more change. Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Mississippi, has …

  3. As the UN adopts an equal world map, meet the three geographers who disputed how the Earth was charted 2000 years ago

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:59:51 -0000

    For more than 200 years, the standard map of the world has been based on a 1569 chart of the globe pioneered by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator …

  4. Trump says US won Iran war, Iran responds

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:02:53 -0000

    President Trump said that the U.S. won the war with Iran but that the U.S. naval blockade would continue. Iranian officials responded on the sidelines of an international climate summit in Turkey. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has said the war with Iran is on hold for now and that the U.S. …

  5. How much rain can Florida take? Recent ‘rain bombs’ offer a troubling preview

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:08:00 -0000

    A week after record-breaking rains walloped parts of Palm Beach County, some communities are still flooded. “There’s water on some of their roadways …

  6. Turkey's president calls the war in Gaza an 'ecocide' at the UN climate summit

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:50:36 -0000

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for the world to recognize the environmental impacts of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and asked the Israeli government to grant more aid access to the Palestinian territory. Erdogan was speaking at the U.N. climate summit, known as COP31, in …

  7. Nvidia’s in Bed With a Chinese Spy—and Trump’s in Bed With Nvidia

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Jensen Huang honeytrap story contains multitudes, but here’s the bottom line: National security is for sale. On November 8, Jensen Huang, founder …

  8. The Army now has a clean, battery-electric train

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:59:00 -0000

    The train is in service at Fort Hood, where its battery also serves as a backup source of power during emergencies. Last December, the Army’s first …

  9. Breaking: Scientists Find Evidence of Primordial Water Hidden at The Edge of The Solar System

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:00:00 -0000

    The Solar System is a soggy sort of place. Although most of Earth's surface is covered in liquid water, it's a mere drop in the ocean compared to the …

  10. Albanese spruiks Australian renewables while telling the world to do better

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:21:29 -0000

    As Anthony Albanese lectures the world on climate change action, his ministers are trying to defend his legislative agenda back at home. Meanwhile, …

  11. Michigan Residents Voted to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics. Now Utilities Are Suing

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:15:00 -0000

    Amid rising electricity costs, Michiganders decisively voted for a ballot proposition to curtail the ability of utilities to spend on elections—a …

  12. A Remote Island Holds a Major Warning Sign for the Future of Humanity

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    A 180-year accidental experiment on a barren volcanic rock could show us how to reverse deserts—or how to break nature. The word “terraforming” is typically reserved for discussions of other worlds. Sci-fi writers dream up vast galactic empires where humans have bent entire planetary ecosystems to …

  13. These Will Be the Snowiest Adventure Towns This Winter, According to a Meteorologist

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:05:25 -0000

    A meteorologist analyzes Super El Niño and Pacific climate patterns to forecast which mountain towns and ski regions will receive the highest snowfall this winter. These are her picks for the towns likely to get dumped on the most—and a few wild cards to watch. Every year, America’s snowiest towns …

  14. Modern Humans Are the Only Human Species Left, and We May Have Driven Other Lineages to Extinction

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    Our modern human ancestors may have been, at least in part, responsible for the eventual downfall of other human species. Today, only one human …

  15. Corporations Win “Free Speech” Right To Hide Pollution

    Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:46:53 -0000

    A federal appeals court says forcing corporations to disclose their biggest sources of climate pollution is likely unconstitutional. A San …

  16. On Jan. 3, Democrats run into reality

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Watch what happens with climate change, campaign finance, Medicare-for-all and racial gerrymandering. Congress has a caucus for every cause — bicycles, snowboarding, baking, composting, aquaculture, soccer, rock-and-roll, and on and on. There are more caucuses, formal and informal, than members of …

  17. Climate crisis is ‘outrunning us’, UN chief warns COP31

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:15:00 -0000

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey that the slow international response to climate change so far …

  18. 'Everything we love is at stake': Greta Thunberg blasts COP climate summits as being full of lobbyists

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:00:45 -0000

    Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres blasted fossil fuel companies for "killing our planet". Climate activist …

  19. John Kerry: America Must Now Follow China’s Lead on Clean Energy

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:30:00 -0000

    China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe—including the United States—must now follow, former US …

  20. ‘Our neighbours are gone’: Gaza survivors recount horrors of deadly floods

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:04:17 -0000

    A deadly sandbank collapse buried displaced families alive in Deir el-Balah, as survivors describe desperate rescue attempts. Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Gaza is dealing with the cleanup of catastrophic flooding after storms submerged displacement camps and war-destroyed cities. Heavy rain has …

  21. North America’s First SMR Project Is Running Late and Over Budget

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:24:55 -0000

    On inflation, Sublime’s lawsuit, and Bill Gates’ trash Current conditions: A large storm is roaring across the Northeast that will shower Michigan and …

  22. Homebuilders in Fire-Ravaged Altadena Are Using 3D Printing To Rebuild

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:31:49 -0000

    Residents walking through Altadena, CA, recently were struck by an odd sight this week: A large gantry crane appeared to be "printing" out …

  23. Earth's rocks are missing about a billion years. Scientists finally know where it went

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:49:53 -0000

    It's one of geology's deepest mysteries. Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into …

  24. El Niño will push temperatures above 1.5 degrees C. Will we ever come back down?

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:30:00 -0000

    In the midst of an El Niño likely to be the strongest in living memory—perhaps even in the past 1,000 years—the massive pulse of heat being exhaled …

  25. The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills

    Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In November 2015, world leaders descended on Paris to negotiate a historic agreement to limit global warming. But on the summit’s opening day, …

  26. Did the Ice Under Chuck Schumer Just Get a Bit Thinner?

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:07:39 -0000

    The New York Democrat is facing two potential challenges to his bid to become the next Senate majority leader. You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get …

  27. The Global Economy Braces for Yet Another Blow

    Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:00:07 -0000

    El Niño is already unleashing economic and agricultural pain worldwide. It may get even worse. Deadly flooding sweeping the American Southwest. …

  28. Prepare for the AI Apocalypse Like You’d Prepare for a Snowstorm

    Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:01:25 -0000

    Water, batteries, and go bags Since late last year, a small but growing chorus of cybersecurity experts has been warning that AI models were pushing the internet toward a sort of cataclysm. Hospitals, banks, utilities, basically anything and everything connected to the web could be hacked. Over the …

  29. Why nature-based solutions for cities are the future of urban resilience

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:24:24 -0000

    The world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 55 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, a figure projected to increase …

  30. The West built 2 giant reservoirs. It may only save 1

    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    There is a clear intersection point where Lake Powell’s water ends and Glen Canyon’s once-water-buried land begins, and it can be described in one …