Thousands of Gaza children are malnourished under Israel's food blockade, aid groups say
17 April 2025 - Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel's blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where it has barred entry of all food and other goods for more than six weeks. Thousands of children have become malnourished, and most people are barely eating one meal a day as stocks dwindle, the United Nations says. (more)

Energy demands from AI datacenters to quadruple by 2030, says report
10 April 2025 - The global rush to AI technology will require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today, but only about half of the demand is likely to be met from renewable sources. Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). (more)

Revealed: Big tech's new datacenters will take water from the world's driest areas
9 April 2025 - Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are building datacenters in water-scarce parts of five continents. (more)

Scientists genetically engineer wolves that resemble the extinct dire wolf
7 April 2025 - Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. ...Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years old, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today. (more)

What to know about the severe storms and flash flooding hitting parts of the US
6 April 2025 - Parts of the South and Midwest, still reeling from violent storms, tornadoes, and flooding that have killed more than a dozen people, face new flooding and tornado warnings that forecasters said could last for days. (more)

Early bloom of toxic algae off Southern California sickens hundreds of sea lions and dolphins
27 March 2025 - Harmful algae blooming off the coast of Southern California has poisoned scores of California sea lions and common dolphins that are stranding in large numbers on area beaches. West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network partners are reporting upwards of 100 calls a day reporting sea lions and dolphins affected by the algal toxin, domoic acid. Some animals experience seizures on the beach, or may appear to bob their head, while others have died. (more)

'Demonic' sea lion reports spark concerns about toxic algae on California coast
26 March 2025 - Sea lions on the California coast are reportedly displaying strange behavior, likely due to a harmful algae bloom impacting the region, according to marine researchers. The sea lions are likely being poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin within the algae blooms, which they ingest through the fish they eat, according to marine experts. Ingesting domoic acid can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning in humans and marine mammals, according to the Marine Mammal Care Center. (more)

US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause
25 March 2025 - Honeybee deaths have hit record highs in the US, with the unprecedented loss of colonies pushing many beekeepers close to ruin as scientists scramble to identify the main cause of the huge declines. Commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 60 percent of their colonies, on average, over the winter, according to an ongoing Project Apis m. survey that covers more than two-thirds of America's managed bees. (more)