The Coalition has promised a major slowdown of renewables if it wins power, including scrapping most offshore renewables sites, formalising its commitment to unpick Australia's key climate policies.

Isabel Hilton on sci-fi climate solutions and the future of renewables

California is leading on kids’ data privacy in the U.S. but still lags internationally.

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

As the Trump administration and USPS look to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterms, we asked Bolts readers to send us your questions—and our team has tackled 10 of them.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models

The peeved president is now going after"Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker for saying his endorsed candidates had "mixed results" in primary elections.

The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

AAgrivoltaic systems are designed to mutually benefit solar energy and agricultural production in the same location for dual-use of land. This study was cond...

As these bacterial explosions increase worldwide, researchers are racing to study their health impacts

Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing.

Instead of collapsing, the Iranian regime has dug in its heels and taken an even harder line.

Systematic mapping of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and determining how causal mutations rewire them in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) provide a powerful framework for uncovering disease ...

By the time they graduate, this year’s first graders will have navigated big shifts in education.

A house in San Francisco covered in the painted faces of Latin rock artists was formally landmarked by the city. Its neighborhood has seen skyrocketing home prices and decades of redevelopment.

The Skeetchestn Indian Band turns timber on its territory into modular housing kits based on a traditional cultural design.

There’s a $58-billion hole in Canada’s new policy to support farmers, families and small businesses. And it stinks.

Birds are not only wondrous creatures that live amongst us, they’re also an essential part of life on Earth – helping grow food, keeping pests at bay and spreading seeds. But more than half of migrato...

Data centres used over 514 million litres of water between May and July this year, increasing during the hosepipe ban.

The unusual weather pattern and dried out peatlands, a kind of wetland, have been behind some of the country’s worst fire seasons. This year could be one.

The technology is raising questions about the efficacy of a decades-old academic tradition.

State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting.

Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how an unusually hot, dry summer is testing the continent’s infrastructure

In November's midterm elections, New Hampshire is among a handful of states that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. What sets the Granite State from the likes of Michigan, Maine and Texas, is that Pappas and Sununu are avoiding their parties' ideological extremes.

The Trump administration — fresh off a failed attempt to blame vandals for botched work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — has tried once again to dodge responsibility and enraged locals in the process. Trump's latest political jab spurred one D.C. local to snap off a photo and send it to New...

Trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

Remembering Hiroshima cannot become a once-a-year ritual. It must become a reminder that nuclear weapons remain an urgent contemporary problem.

FBI Director Kash Patel's unprecedented law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia have triggered significant alarm within the U.S. counterintelligence community, according to a new report. Former FBI supervisory agent Jeff Crocker warned that allowing Chinese officials access to American in...

The Democratic Socialists of America want to fight for working-class Americans by offering free healthcare and childcare. It has some other ideas too.

An emergency has been declared in Washington state, where 60,000 people have been left without power as strong winds and high temperatures drive fast-moving wildfires.

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

Outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are pushing more shoppers to their local farmers markets.

Elizabeth Gibbons writes about how she has learned teachers need to be more involved in education policy to improve classroom outcomes.

Budapest loses 40 percent of the country’s electricity generation as water levels continue to drop.

It's out of the way, unfathomably strange, and, if you ask Salt Lake City, worth protecting for the long haul.

Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.

Discover the evolution of wildfires, from 1st-generation fires to 6th-generation mega-fires, driven by climate change and shifts in land use.