Nidhi Sharma

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chase Cain |Nidhi Sharma

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansendeparts regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage, down to the Antarctic Peninsula. The cruise carries wealthy adventurers, bucket listers and, increasingly, polar scientists looking to gather data as public funding for Antarctic research vanishes under the Trump administration.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Nidhi Sharma

Freshwater essential to lithium mining is running low in the world’s “Lithium Triangle,” a mineral-rich region in the Andean Plateau that stretches across parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and contains more than half of all global lithium reserves. In a study published last week in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, researchers found that the amount of freshwater locally available for lithium extraction is about 10 times lower than previous estimates.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Nidhi Sharma

1 hour agoBut only if it’s used. In Los Angeles, where I live, you don’t expect to be heckled while driving an electric car to the grocery store. But on a recent afternoon, a couple of men on bikes saw the Tesla logo on the front of my car and shouted, “Fuck you, Tesla guy” as I rolled by with the windows …

Feb 12, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Steve Kopack |Nidhi Sharma

Bad news at the breakfast table: Your morning cup of coffee could soon be getting more expensive. The benchmark that sets the global price of arabica coffee has more than doubled over the past year, with 25% of that surge coming since the start of 2025. For the first time, one pound of arabica costs more than $4 on commodity markets.

Feb 6, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Nidhi Sharma |Al Roker

The wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area last month were driven by monthslong, climate change-fueled weather patterns, according to scientists studying the meteorological factors behind them. Research released last week by World Weather Attribution, a collaboration of scientists studying the influence of climate change on extreme weather events, found that human-caused global warming made the conditions that drove the Los Angeles-area wildfires about 35% more likely.