Less than an hour’s train ride from central Tokyo, ecologist Kei Uchida walks through glades of mountain cherry trees and meadows filled with susuki grass as tall as an elephant. The researcher smiles when he spots something by the trail: a tangled orb of grass stalks, at about knee height. It is the nest of
The retreat of Papua’s glaciers is driven by the same forces affecting ice around the world, Šabacká notes, a warming atmosphere caused by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. As temperatures rise, the freezing point moves higher up mountains, so more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow,
A regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis in Nevada is set to expire this month, clearing the way for the Amazon-owned company to expand its commercial fleet of custom-built robotaxis in Las Vegas just as competition heats up. The Nevada Transportation Authority (NTA) permit that imposed the 100-vehicle cap is set to expire September
Two boats carrying some 530 Rohingya asylum seekers left Myanmar’s Rakhine state on June 29 and have not been heard from since. The equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people has disappeared. It is very likely that both capsized. The monsoon has begun, the sea is rough and the boats, usually old fishing trawlers
