Plagued by flooding, an African city reengineers its wetlands

Read the full story at e360. As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow...

7 trends shaping polyester’s future

Read the full story at Trellis. Polyester’s 59 percent share of global textiles is baked into fast-fashion economics, and sustainability-minded brands barely register against ultra-low-cost giants. Bottle-to-fiber recycling, microfiber shedding and slow progress on...

Sea star murder mystery: What’s killing a key ocean species?

Read the full story at e360. Billions of sea stars, victims of a deadly wasting illness, have perished over the last decade, imperiling marine ecosystems and spurring a global hunt for a biological or environmental culprit. Recently, researchers identified a likely...

New way of monitoring wildfire could take flight

Read the full story from Clemson University. See also: Marinaccio, M., & Afghah, F. (2025). Seeing heat with color—RGB-only wildfire temperature inference from SAM-guided multimodal distillation using radiometric ground truth (No. arXiv:2505.01638)....

The West’s water war arrives in Washington

The Trump administration’s hands-off approach to the fight over the Colorado River has left states careening towards a crisis — and it’s not clear that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum can turn them around.

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