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Reflecting sunlight on buildings and cars among dozens of ideas considered by Steven Chu and the US energy department

Cycling in some of the world’s largest cities has continued to increase since the pandemic, thanks to safer and improved infrastructure which is also leading to a drop in fatality rates. Tracking data...

Combined action could lift global growth by 2.8% by 2035, report estimates

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

Vlaamse 15-jarigen scoren slechter dan de voorbije jaren op de nieuwste PISA-test, het internationale onderzoek waarmee de OESO om de 3 jaar de kennis van leerlingen wereldwijd vergelijkt. Maar hoe zi...

The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”

High bicycle ownership does not necessarily correlate with high bicycle use, with substantial health and environmental gains possible by worldwide pro-bicycle policy implementation, suggests a global ...

The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”

Introduction of the London ULEZ was associated with improved lung function growth trajectories in children in London compared with children in Luton, suggesting that previous deficits in lung developm...

Hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain the flames consuming the major park.

Former US chief health official Anthony Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress by a US Senate committee for refusing to answer its questions during a recent evidence session on covid-19. Fauci, ...

This paper produces the first estimates of local damages from climate change, reflecting heterogeneous exposure and responses to climate for ∼25,000 globally comprehensive regions. Global damages from...