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These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down.

✇NYT: Science
By: Delger Erdenesanaa
24 May 2024 at 05:02
Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

© Cornell Watson for The New York Times

From left: Lila Gisondi, Mateo De La Rocha and Sebastian Ng, high school seniors in Cary, N.C., who adopted an oil well in Ohio that was leaking gas.

Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds

✇NYT: Science
By: Delger Erdenesanaa
14 May 2024 at 11:02
Scientists used tree rings to compare last year’s extreme heat with temperatures over the past two millenniums.

© Arpad Benedek/Alamy

A 730-year-old fir tree in Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. Researchers used data from 10,000 trees across the Northern Hemisphere.

Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth

✇NYT: Science
By: Katrina Miller and Delger Erdenesanaa
14 May 2024 at 03:00
A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.

© David Maurice Smith for The New York Times

Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside Canberra, in the remains of the observatory, which was destroyed in a 2003 wildfire.

The U.S. Is Getting More Heavy Tornado Days. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why.

✇NYT: Science
By: Delger Erdenesanaa
8 May 2024 at 16:12
The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing.

© Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News, via Associated Press

A tornado near Hawley, Texas, on Thursday.

Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize Use Courts to Contest Oil Projects

✇NYT: Science
By: Delger Erdenesanaa
29 April 2024 at 13:09
Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning.

© Rogan Ward/Reuters

Wild Coast residents demonstrated against Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to start seismic surveys for petroleum exploration at Mzamba Beach, Sigidi, South Africa, in 2021.
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