newsmart – Environment

theguardian.com | 23 hrs. 52 min. ago

Country diary: From Mexico’s Day of the Dead to a Shropshire allotment

Paul Evans | The Marches, Shropshire: Symbolically a flower of the ancestor-honouring Mexican festival, the dahlia appeals to the British gardener’s appetite for the spectacularGardeners are a deviant lot. Despite our passion for wildlife gardening and the drive to be sustained by, and share, our own fruit and veg, our appetite for novelty, aberrancy and even the spectacularly monstrous is insatiable.Take a look at this.

The flower is the size of a plate and the brightest orange, like Mark Rothko’s painting No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), with a kind of vibrating stillness, maybe the colour of a sugar maple in autumn sunlight. The ray florets are a mass of long, pointed, half‑curled petals, wildly dancing, writhing away from the central boss of golden disc florets.

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defence-blog.com | 1 days ago

DARPA wants smart nuclear reactor for space and bases

The Pentagon’s top research agency wants a nuclear reactor that can run itself, and it has hired the team that built America’s last space reactor to prove it can be done. DARPA has awarded Space Nuclear Power Corporation, a small Los Alamos, New Mexico, company known as SpaceNukes, an agreement to build a Kilopower reactor […]

propublica.org | 1 days ago

Deadly New Mexico flood exposes failures to protect residents from climate-driven disasters

Despite repeated warnings that wildfire-scarred mountains could unleash catastrophic flooding, officials in Ruidoso, New Mexico, prioritized tourism and racetrack investments over flood protections.