Sonia Ramírez

Journalist with more than 13 years of experience in radio and digital media. I have developed and led content on culture, education, international affairs, and trends, with a global perspective and the ability to adapt to diverse audiences. My work has had international reach, bringing complex topics to broad audiences in a clear and engaging way.
Electra EL9 hybrid-electric aircraft shown in flight with eight electric propellers.

Electra plans a $850 million aircraft factory in Springfield, Ohio, to build nine-passenger electric planes, but whether the climate case holds depends on what trips actually get replaced

August 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Heavy machinery works on protective lava barriers as an eruption sends lava across Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.

Beneath Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, magma continues to accumulate 28.3 million cubic meters waiting underground while barrier work pauses and warning windows narrow to hours or less

August 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Close-up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species tested for susceptibility to alpha-cypermethrin.

A laboratory dose of insecticide killed 97.91% of the mosquitoes that spread dengue, and the tiny fraction that survived is what has researchers in Delhi worried

August 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Rescued female saltwater crocodile from Magalang, Pampanga, Philippines

Saltwater crocodiles vanished from Philippine coasts decades ago, and a 10-foot female’s rescue this August revealed more about captive wildlife than a comeback

August 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
King cobra with its hood raised on the leaf-covered floor of a forest.

Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site

August 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
PNNL chemist Chinmayee Subban demonstrates technology developed to extract magnesium from seawater.

Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out

August 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Crane loads a rock-filled barge on a river, similar to the barges used to redirect Danube flow in Romania

Romania sank four rock-filled barges into the Danube to keep a nuclear reactor running, and the river rose an inch and a half when forecasters had expected a drop

August 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Phil Brown walks through vegetable fields in Bowen, Queensland, where plastic mulch and drip irrigation are widely used in crop production.

A Queensland couple keeps the plastic matting and drip tape that grew their tomatoes, because Australia recycles only 7 percent of farm plastic and no truck will take the rest

August 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Leonardo DiCaprio alongside a pink iguana featured in the Phoenix Species Project

Leonardo DiCaprio and others fund a USD 200 million project to recover 100 species on the brink of extinction, a genetic rescue plan

August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Woman interacting with a horse at Kind Farm animal sanctuary in New Zealand

A New Zealand farm offers free housing and rescued animals in exchange for four morning hours, a work-exchange life experiment

August 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Rendering of the planned GW Ranch AI data center and natural gas power project in Pecos County, Texas.

Amazon builds a 35-turbine gas plant in Texas for its AI data centers, betting raw fossil power on artificial intelligence

August 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Golden eagle flying near an IdentiFlight camera system and wind turbines at a Wyoming wind farm.

Golden eagles over Wyoming may miss wind turbines, a blind spot in their vision that makes renewables unexpectedly dangerous

August 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of wetlands and lakes across the Siberian landscape in Russia.

Siberia’s summer methane emissions roughly doubled between 2010 and 2023, revealing how rapidly the region responds to warming and thaw

August 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of a U.S. coastal wetland where marshes help protect shorelines from rising sea levels.

Eighty-four percent of U.S. coastal wetlands are not keeping pace with rising seas, leaving the nation’s defense against storm surge increasingly compromised

August 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A brown bear with two cubs climbs and rubs against a tree in the French Pyrenees, captured by a wildlife camera.

French Pyrenees brown bears show signs of recovery with twelve cubs and a twenty-nine-year-old male recorded among six hundred eighty-five tracks and sightings

August 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
deep-ocean-turbulent-mixing-climate-diagram

Tiny ocean swirls smaller than a coin alter climate, carbon, and nutrients within a single year through deep mixing of water layers

August 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Illustration of Earth's molten outer core with ESA Swarm satellites monitoring changes in the planet's magnetic field.

Around 2010, iron-rich liquid beneath the Pacific switched direction inside Earth’s outer core, a reversal that peaked then weakened again by 2020

August 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
north-american-beaver-cutting-tree-tierra-del-fuego

In 1946, Argentina released just 20 beavers in Tierra del Fuego to start a fur trade, and the failed experiment now costs the country $66.6 million a year

August 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Underwater remains of the Gran Carro Iron Age settlement in Lake Bolsena where archaeologists uncovered the first textile fragment in more than 60 years.

Archaeologists recovered a piece of ancient fabric from Gran Carro, an underwater settlement in Italy, among the remains of a domestic loom submerged for thousands of years

August 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Black2Green's 15-tonne-per-day plastics-to-energy facility in Whangārei, New Zealand.

A New Zealand plastic-to-fuel plant can keep operating after an Environment Court ruling, and Zero Waste Aotearoa says the missing emissions evidence is the real alarm

August 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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