Nature
"The Flame in the Forest"
Deep in the heart of the ancient rainforest, where vines hung like curtains and the air shimmered with mist, there lived a young leopard named Luma. She had golden eyes that missed nothing and paws so soft they barely made a sound on the jungle floor. But unlike the other leopards, Luma was not content to roam the edges of the forest. She longed to know what lay beyond the familiar trails—what mysteries the jungle still held.
By Muhammmad Zain Ul Hassan7 months ago in Earth
Central Texas is Flooding, Again
Let me take you back to 2018, a year that saw the second year of Trump’s Presidency; the Philadelphia Eagles winning their first Super Bowl in franchise history; the release of Marvel’s Black Panther; the end of the Kepler Space Telescope mission; and the “14 separate billion-dollar disaster events including: two tropical cyclones, eight severe storms, two winter storms, drought, and wildfires,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA.
By Amanda Starks7 months ago in Earth
Google Inks $3 Billion US Hydropower Deal, Largest Clean Energy Agreement of Its Kind
In a transformative move for clean energy and corporate sustainability, Google has inked a $3 billion hydropower agreement in the United States, marking the largest deal of its kind in renewable energy history. This partnership underscores Google's ambition to power its data centers and offices exclusively with carbon-free energy by 2030. The hydropower deal is a cornerstone strategy to decarbonize operations and meet escalating demands for green energy.
By Kageno Hoshino7 months ago in Earth
Japan's Smart Response to Climate Change
by Futoshi Tachino On a muggy midsummer afternoon in Japan, the cicadas of Kanagawa Prefecture raise their familiar chorus, yet the hum that truly defines the skyline comes from rooftops sparkling with photovoltaics and from battery arrays quietly balancing loads behind closed doors. Here, ecological hope is not an abstraction: the Japanese tradition of meticulous engineering meets an urgency carved by typhoons, earthquakes, and carbon budgets that will outlive every child born today.
By Futoshi Tachino7 months ago in Earth
Gaza's Desalination Pivot
by Futoshi Tachino The crucible Gaza is where climate vulnerability collides head‑on with political blockade. A joint World Water Day press release from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Palestinian Water Authority notes that 97 percent of water pumped from the Strip’s coastal aquifer fails World Health Organization standards—leaving most families to scrape by on as little as 3 to 15 litres a day (PCBS & PWA, 2024). When a July 2025 Israeli strike hit a queue of people filling jerrycans, Reuters described residents doubling back to brackish wells despite the risk of disease (Reuters, 2025). Layer the region’s projected heat on top of that. A 2021 study in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science warns that, without steep emissions cuts, parts of the Middle East and North Africa will face “super‑ and ultra‑extreme” heatwaves above 50 °C by late century (Zittis et al., 2021). With water scarce and temperatures soaring, Gaza’s humanitarian emergency easily mutates into a climate‑security tinderbox.
By Futoshi Tachino7 months ago in Earth
