In 2024, total data “created, captured, copied, and consumed” was around 150 Zettabytes (10^18 bytes or 1 billion terabytes) and global mobile data traffic was around 125 Exabytes (10^15 bytes or 1 ...

And to be clear, he adds, “This system is incredibly complex, and we don’t know the official version of what happened. We reached out to Spanish officials, and they were not ready to comment on the ...

According to ESA’s space debris environment model MASTER (Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment Reference), there were 54,000 space debris objects greater than 10 cm (4 in), 1.2 million ...

Global electricity generation grew by over 1,200 TWh. Of this increase, 480 TWh was from solar photovoltaics, 190TWh was from hydropower, and 180 TWh was from wind power. In 2024, six nuclear projects ...

This decline upends economic models that rely on a stable working-age population to support the national economy and its nonworking population, including retirees. Japan and South Korea have been ...

Humans have used sailing vessels for millennia, but in the late 1800s, ships began converting to combustion engines as the technology became widely used for trains, factories, and later automobiles.

Between 713 million and 757 million people—one out of 11 people in the world and one out of every five in Africa—suffered from hunger in 2023 according to the UN World Food Programme’s 2024 report.

In 2017, a group of reformers—including Rodale Institute—joined forces to accelerate trends toward organic farming. With the mantra “farm like the world depends on it,” the Regenerative Organic ...

One key part of the COP30 preparations is the submission of Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs. These are plans that every country must submit to the United Nations to show how they will ...

Carbon sequestration is a mechanism to improve, protect, and sustain soil health. The reason soils in Africa have bypassed the green revolution is because they did not have fertilizer and irrigation, ...

Southern England is home to unique freshwater ecosystems known as chalk streams. The name is derived from the rivers’ unusual chalk bedrock, formed during the Cretaceous period. Teeming with flora and ...

The North Pole is warmer than the South Pole partly due to how the North Pole is surrounded by land (North America and Asia), while the South Pole is completely surrounded by water, allowing for a ...