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Parts of the UK with clear skies will see the Moon take a "bite" out of the Sun on Saturday morning. [...]
Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests? [...]
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says. [...]
The operators of a 225-year-old canal warn of an "urgent" water shortage without imminent rainfall. [...]
On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck. [...]
A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station. [...]
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads. [...]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods. [...]
The mission was supposed to last 10 days but less then a day after landing, the craft is running out of power. [...]
New part of the immune system - hidden inside our bodies - could be used to make new antibiotics. [...]
Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims. [...]
Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world. [...]
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA. [...]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company blasts its first rocket into orbit in a challenge to Elon Musk. [...]
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost [...]
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought. [...]
Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests? [...]
The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets. [...]
Greenpeace has warned it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case brought by Energy Transfer. [...]
The Tory leader says the target is impossible "without a serious drop in our living standards". [...]
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads. [...]
The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months. [...]
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London. [...]
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI. [...]
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA. [...]
The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector [...]
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure". [...]
The UK led the way in this field of science until recently - but now other countries have overtaken. So, how can that lead be recovered? [...]
With the risk factors increasing, is it still safe to live in areas prone to these disasters - and can fireproofing ever work? [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
This immense worm moves slowly and gracefully underground and can grow to the length of an outstretched armMore fantastic invertebrate nominations hereThe giant Gippsland earthworm already has an upbeat campaign [...]
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly malignedWith the exception of Christmas trees, conifers are not widely cherished. People tend to [...]
Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversityA Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the [...]
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex: It’s peak breeding season, so the boom in muddy heaps is likely a sign of males, emerging in search of a mateFor the past month I’ve been [...]
In Sweden, most residential heating and hot water comes from heating networks – helping to pool resources and innovationDistrict heating is sometimes talked about like some kind of unattainable utopia, [...]
Yale Environment 360
Published by the Yale School of the Environment, it provides opinion, analysis, and reporting on topics like climate change, conservation, and air and water pollution.
The EU is getting further from its goal of weaning off Russian fossil fuels by 2027. Imports of Russian gas rose by 18 percent last year, a new analysis finds.Read [...]
As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions. Most of the mining is done on a small scale by [...]
Renewables accounted for 92 percent of new power capacity worldwide last year, a new report shows.Read more on E360 → [...]
For more than 50 years, NOAA has pioneered climate research and been instrumental in advancing modern weather forecasting. Now labeled by Project 2025 as part of the “climate alarm industry” [...]
Since 2000, the melting of Arctic glaciers has exposed some 1,500 miles of coastline, a study finds.Read more on E360 → [...]
New research finds that microalgae in northern peat bogs will absorb more carbon dioxide as the planet warms, helping to take a bite out of emissions.Read more on E360 → [...]
As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve endangered plant species in botanical garden “metacollections” in the hope of eventually returning them to [...]
Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels hit new highs last year, according to a U.N. report detailing the dire state of the global climate.Read more on E360 → [...]
New research finds that, pound for pound, grazing cattle generate at least as much heat-trapping gas as those raised in feedlots.Read more on E360 → [...]
Inside Climate News
CHICAGO—A community meeting had barely begun when residents leapt out of their seats in an outpouring of frustration and distrust. “We are tired of false promises,” Isabela Jaimes, an organizer [...]
Negotiations over the 1997 United Nations climate agreement might not seem the sort of stuff that could draw sold-out audiences to London’s West End. Think again. “Kyoto,” a play that [...]
The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission on Friday voted to approve Rhode Island Energy’s proposed summer rates for residential customers, saying customers can expect relief following costly winter bills. But [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Opponents of the planned restart of a nuclear reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant vowed on Friday to press their case with federal and state regulators as nuclear [...]
In an August meeting of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power company, board member Michelle Moore reminded her colleagues of what’s written above the [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00984-6Researchers are looking to improve how ageing is measured, but the field is plagued with uncertainties. [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00879-6Study of more than 100,000 people supports your parents’ advice: eat your veggies. [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00937-zStudy finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and call for replication. [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00968-6Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results. [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00924-4US researchers who must forage for their own salary by finding grants fear they will be the first to go as federal research dollars [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00930-6Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend. [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00938-yMore than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00780-2Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to. [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00559-5Learning how to influence the way people see me when I enter a room has been key to boosting my confidence in job interviews. [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00988-2A huge study paints the most detailed picture yet of the toll pregnancy and childbirth take on the body. Plus, scientists have discovered a [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00983-7US science partnerships are on thin ice as geopolitical tensions soar. [...]
Nature, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00868-9Thousands of 3D protein structures locked up in big-pharma vaults will be used to create a new AI tool that won’t be open to [...]
Climate Central
By Lori Valigra (Bangor Daily News) and Caitlin Looby (Climate Central) with Jen Brady (Climate Central) contributing to data reporting Maire Lenihan coaxes organic Keuka Gold potatoes into a washing machine at Goranson [...]
By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central ) and Andrew S. Lewis and Michael Sol Warren (NJ Spotlight News), with television segment by Brenda Flanagan (NJ Spotlight News) Read the Climate Central report, Future Flood [...]
By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central) and Amber Alexander (NBC WHO 13 Des Moines) Kerri Johannsen was less than a week from giving birth to her second child when a derecho [...]
By Lori Valigra and Elizabeth Miller A skier jumps into the air in front of a large snow-making machine at Shawnee Peak in Bridgton on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Modern advances in [...]
By Clarisa Diaz and Elizabeth Miller Rain, wet snow, and shallow snow are all expected to increase at former Olympic venues over the coming decades, according to a new study led by [...]
Mongabay
Wilpattu, SRI LANKA – After a fruitful safari at Wilpattu National Park, wildlife photographer Rohan Fonseka and his colleagues ventured toward the Maradanmaduwa area, hoping to catch a glimpse of [...]
The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is included in the list of the most genetically and evolutionarily unique creatures [...]
In a conservation milestone, 10 Siamese crocodiles were released this month into Cambodia’s Virachey National Park for the first time, as part of a decades-long effort to save the critically [...]
A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to observe a part of the planet never before seen [...]
Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply for both exploration and exploitation licenses, potentially circumventing the international regulator. [...]
Grist
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state. [...]
Extreme weather wiped out billions in crops last year — but most federal aid may end up going to the wrong farms. [...]
Greenpeace
Elephant conservation in India is a popular and emotive issue. But when we look closer, the shrinking elephant habitat, human-elephant conflict and unscientific interventions are certainly concerning. [...]
Delhi, India, 22 July 2019 – In response to developments following India’s Supreme Court ordering the eviction of millions of tribal and other forest-dwelling people in February 2019, Greenpeace reaffirms… [...]
New coal plants shrink globally, but GoI continues to approve new proposals, despite pollution and deforestation impacts New Delhi, Thursday, March 28, 2019— For the third year in a row,… [...]
Gurgaon is one of the most polluted cities in India, with only 3 days of clean air in 2018. Now a new amendment will make 20,000 acres of Aravalli forest [...]
If, to be put on trial for speaking out for equality and justice is a crime, the society needs some serious introspection. The way the voice of Greenpeace India has… [...]