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The White House announces a "national energy emergency" to reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas. [...]
Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets. [...]
A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash. [...]
Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by. [...]
Frogs, lizards, snakes and insect pests are being transported across the world on ornamental plants. [...]
Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, has completed her first spacewalk since arriving. [...]
India is only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China. [...]
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? [...]
Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year. [...]
After edging close to extinction, there are now some 2,000 Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal. [...]
The Northern Territory is home to over 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, but not everyone wants them there. [...]
Campaigners, politicians and zoo managers disagree on where Wikie and her son Keijo should be sent. [...]
Financial problems at battery maker Northvolt have shaken hopes for Sweden's green industry sector. [...]
Climate change caused 41 additional days of dangerous heat and extreme weather, say scientists. [...]
LA is trying to expand its cycling network ahead of the 2028 Olympics, but some are skeptical. [...]
A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators. [...]
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn. [...]
Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns. [...]
The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target. [...]
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. [...]
Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it. [...]
A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked. [...]
As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit. [...]
Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust. [...]
A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up? [...]
The latest United States withdrawal from international efforts to slow global warming feels old hat to many long-time policy experts, who say that while the move will make global climate [...]
Soon after he was sworn in to his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump issued more than two dozen executive orders that touch on nearly every facet of U.S. [...]
As fires spread with alarming speed through the Pacific Palisades region of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 7, a local TV news crew recorded a mountain lion trailed by two young [...]
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—On issues of climate change, the pope’s influence may stop at the Alabama border. Following an unprecedented, forcefully written call to action on climate change from Pope Francis [...]
The auto industry saw a slowdown in growth of U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2024, largely due to the longtime leader—Tesla—losing ground. How things go in 2025 will depend a [...]
Texas regulators have completed the first overhaul of oilfield waste rules in over 40 years. The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) last month adopted revisions for Chapters 3 and 4 [...]
After Colorado’s most costly wildfire, hundreds of residents in Louisville—one of the communities that burned—protested in front of city hall over building codes meant to make new homes more green [...]
In his four years in office, President Joe Biden dedicated more federal attention to climate action than any previous president, breaking a decades-long impasse, and worked to ensure vulnerable people [...]
Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre [...]
MANHEIM, Pa.—Stephen Haldeman has four apps on his phone just to check air quality, and they have become part of his morning routine: a shot of hot coffee in his [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
President declares energy emergency, reiterates Paris withdrawal plan and overturns emissions standardsDonald Trump declared a national energy emergency on the first day of his new presidency, as part of a [...]
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report showsA third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source [...]
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating diseaseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our [...]
Artisanal shellfish farmers face ruinous losses but money meant to help is going to the powerful fishing industry, say criticsEarly on a warm September morning in southern Italy, Giovanni Nicandro [...]
Move is part of £300m investment that includes deepwater quay and building of hundreds of homes near city centreBelfast harbour is to invest £90m to upgrade its port to serve [...]
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.
In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just beginning to focus on why some fish predators and [...]
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever before, putting hopes of limiting warming in jeopardy.Read more on E360 → [...]
Climate scientist Daniel Swain says that two very wet years followed by a very dry one helped to turn the Los Angeles wildfires into raging infernos. This phenomenon of “hydroclimate [...]
A new study finds that trees that have lived through many wet years struggle to cope with dry spells.Read more on E360 → [...]
A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed by villagers and herders. In many areas, locally-run conservancies now more effectively protect wildlife than national parks do, [...]
In a first, the U.S. saw wind and solar supply more power than coal last year, according to a new analysis. But even as renewables made gains, U.S. emissions stayed [...]
Wildfires in Southern California have burned tens of thousands of acres, destroyed thousands of buildings, and killed at least 10 people. Experts say global warming may have set the stage [...]
In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have stirred controversy. Now, scientists increasingly agree "de-extinction" is not possible, but breeding living animals with genes similar to those [...]
Germany, the largest economy in Europe, got nearly two-thirds of its power from renewables last year, an analysis shows.Read more on E360 → [...]
Inside Climate News
The latest United States withdrawal from international efforts to slow global warming feels old hat to many long-time policy experts, who say that while the move will make global climate [...]
Soon after he was sworn in to his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump issued more than two dozen executive orders that touch on nearly every facet of U.S. [...]
As fires spread with alarming speed through the Pacific Palisades region of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 7, a local TV news crew recorded a mountain lion trailed by two young [...]
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—On issues of climate change, the pope’s influence may stop at the Alabama border. Following an unprecedented, forcefully written call to action on climate change from Pope Francis [...]
The auto industry saw a slowdown in growth of U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2024, largely due to the longtime leader—Tesla—losing ground. How things go in 2025 will depend a [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00153-9Feng ‘Franklin’ Tao says that the University of Kansas violated its own policies after he was wrongly arrested under the China Initiative. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00171-7Africa can’t wait for pandemic preparedness [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00168-2For open communication, give researchers a permanent e-mail alias [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00130-2If one animal urinates, others are likely follow, according to a study of captive apes. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00170-8Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00062-xOur weekly peek at Nature’s archive features musings on knowledge, and a physical phenomenon exemplified by the toot of a passing train. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00169-1Faced with funding cuts, collaborate to define research priorities [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04179-3Tyus Williams harnesses his lived experiences to inform his research — and shares it all on social media. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00068-5Developers have tricks to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth, the whole [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04243-yThe two professions can face similar gender-based challenges in recruitment and retention, says workforce modeller Alison Leary. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00073-8The secure and ethical use of genetic testing can assist family reunifications in Ukraine and other settings for humanitarian disasters. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00149-5Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this will manifest. [...]
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
In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired power plant, has an idea to keep the unit operating despite the [...]
Several years ago, I took a solo trip to the Huánuco region of the central Peruvian Amazon. After traveling five hours from the nearest town by car, boat and tuk-tuk, [...]
In the quiet Swiss town of Davos, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain unfolds as young Hans Castorp’s brief visit to a sanatorium turns into a seven-year exploration of ideas, intrigue, [...]
Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found areas within the [...]
Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the food chain. Krill are also sought [...]
Grist
New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions. [...]
From declaring a “national energy emergency” to exiting the Paris Agreement, here is everything climate-related Trump did on Day 1. [...]
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… [...]