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.
Modern Australian home with rooftop solar panels and a residential battery energy storage system.

Australia’s home battery installations fell more than 70% in a single month, from 80,000 in April to just over 20,000 in May, after the rebate rules changed

August 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Worker unloads recycled oyster shells collected from restaurants for coastal reef restoration.

Florida is turning the shells left behind by restaurant patrons into living reefs, but the figure of 500,000 metric tons does not appear in official records

August 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
polymetallic-nodules-deep-sea-minerals

The U.S. wants to auction deep waters around American Samoa, and the minerals lying up to 20,000 feet down could open a new ocean fight

August 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Low water levels expose sandbanks along the Rhine River during Europe's 2026 summer drought.

Europe’s great rivers are shrinking under heat and drought, and the Danube, Rhine and Loire are showing how fast summer can redraw the continent

August 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Semi-pelagic trawl doors being tested off Spain to reduce seabed contact during commercial fishing.

Scientists are testing “flying doors” that keep trawls above the seabed, and the result could change how fishing scars the ocean floor 

July 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Colobus congoensis, the newly identified monkey species with distinctive orange lips discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A monkey with orange lips was hiding in Congo’s rainforest, and scientists say its discovery is rare enough to change what they knew 

July 31, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri) photographed alive on the seafloor in Northeast Greenland National Park.

An Arctic bobtail squid was filmed alive for the first time, and what she was protecting under the ice made the sighting even rarer

July 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Homes with rooftop solar panels in Australia where batteries can join a virtual power plant.

Only 24% of Australian battery owners will hand control to an operator, even though it nearly doubles their savings, a really hard sell in the words of one energy boss

July 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Abandoned ships stranded on the dried bed of the Aral Sea after decades of water loss.

The dried bed of the Aral Sea has already released 748 million tons of CO2, and Spanish scientists want to refill it with water before another 605 million escape

July 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
The 1,300-year-old wooden skis recovered from the Digervarden ice patch in Norway.

Melting ice in Norway revealed 1,300-year-old skis in remarkable condition, an icy window into how people moved through high mountains centuries ago

July 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Electric car charging at a public station in Spain as lower energy costs continue driving EV adoption.

Driving 100 kilometers in an electric car can cost just 2 or 3 euros compared with 10 to 15 euros in gasoline, a difference that is starting to hit wallets hard

July 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Aerial view of the geotube coastal protection project in Poonthura, India, designed to reduce wave energy and rebuild eroding beaches.

India is sinking giant fabric tubes filled with sand 20 ft. underwater to create an invisible barrier against waves and try to rebuild beaches that are disappearing

July 27, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Chilean student María Javiera Valenzuela holding her NASA Space Apps Challenge award.

A 17-year-old Chilean student is innovating with nuclear energy for Antarctica, a bold proposal mixing youth, extreme science, and one of the harshest places on Earth

July 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ESA Swarm satellites measure Earth's magnetic field, helping scientists detect changes in liquid iron flow inside the planet's outer core.

New data on liquid iron in Earth’s core suggests stranger internal movements than expected, as if the planet were hiding deep machinery we are only beginning to understand

July 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A temporary mud island emerged off the coast of Palo Seco, Trinidad, after powerful earthquakes struck nearby Venezuela.

Scientists discovered a mud volcano off Trinidad formed by earthquakes in Venezuela, a structure born from shaking that shows how the seafloor also keeps fresh scars

July 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A black hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) perched on a tree branch in tropical forest.

A black hawk-eagle was recorded for the first time in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, turning Mexico into the scene of a high-flying naturalist surprise

July 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Emily Morris and Thorsten Stoesser at Emrgy's canal hydropower installation designed to generate electricity without new dams.

A German engineer and an American developer created a hydropower plant without big dams, a quieter idea that aims to draw power from rivers without breaking them apart so much

July 24, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Lower-jaw fragments and isolated teeth of Masripithecus moghraensis next to an Egyptian one-pound coin for scale.

A new scientific discovery has opened a rare window into Earth’s deep past, showing that ancient clues can still shake up what we thought we knew

July 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Facial reconstruction of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human relative discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.

The tiny Homo floresiensis may have survived by scavenging food, an unexpected clue that changes the image of these small humans who lived isolated on a remote island

July 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Ancient ceramic vessel filled with thousands of Roman coins uncovered during excavations in Senon, northeastern France.

Archaeologists in France uncovered a pot filled with tens of thousands of Roman coins from 1,800 years ago, a treasure someone hid and never came back for

July 22, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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