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• What appeared to be a simple tree growing on a hillside can turn into a dense stand of invasive pine trees capable of depleting watersheds, displacing native plants, and altering an entire landscape
• Sea levels are not rising solely because Greenland and Antarctica are melting, but because the ocean is expanding from within, and that invisible factor alone accounts for 43% of the rise recorded since 1960
• In Oaxaca, some women walk up to 10 hours through the jungle to check camera traps that have captured images of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and 24 other species of mammals
• For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread
• The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030
• Switzerland has just installed a small solar power plant between the tracks of an active railway line, and what seems impossible is that more than 11,000 trains have already passed over it without interrupting service
• An experiment conducted in Canada has just demonstrated something that sounds incredibly strange: solar panels floating on a frozen pond continued to generate electricity thanks to a waterproof foam and underwater bubbles
• An electric car’s used battery does not stop working when the car is no longer in use, and a megafactory in Vancouver wants to give it a second life to power hospitals, data centers, and microgrids