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Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth. [...]
Photographs of gulls eating anything from chips to starfish will help solve a scientific puzzle. [...]
Research in Chile could help to provide drinking water for some of the world's most arid places. [...]
The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study. [...]
Roana has recently celebrated her 46th birthday and is believed to be the oldest horse in the UK [...]
Two sinkholes have appeared in the Surrey village of Godstone, but how have they formed and are they dangerous? [...]
The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before. [...]
The UK government says it always takes "decisive action" where abusive practices are found on farms. [...]
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London. [...]
The government has agreed a new subsidy arrangement with the controversial wood-burning Drax power station in north Yorkshire. [...]
The government wants to make it quicker and easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales. [...]
The money will be spent on projects ranging from tidal barriers and flood walls to nature-based solutions. [...]
The Built Environment Committee says the concept has been "eclipsed" by other planning rule changes. [...]
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure". [...]
One of Scotland's biggest plastic problems, the Arrochar litter sink, sits at the head of Loch Long. [...]
Some scientists fear the risk of a collapse to warm Atlantic currents has not been taken seriously. [...]
Vaccinating poultry against bird flu is still not allowed in the UK despite a rise in farm outbreaks. [...]
More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous. [...]
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? [...]
Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming. [...]
Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year. [...]
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. [...]
Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, has completed her first spacewalk since arriving. [...]
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 planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study. [...]
Some major carbon-emitting countries are hinting they may follow suit as the US opts to ramp up fossil fuels. [...]
The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before. [...]
The government has agreed a new subsidy arrangement with the controversial wood-burning Drax power station in north Yorkshire. [...]
The Public Accounts Committee warns the government of gambling public money on carbon capture. [...]
January was expected to be cooler than the same month last year, but was 0.1C warmer, which experts are struggling to explain. [...]
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. [...]
ORLANDO, Fla.—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year. The Center for Biological [...]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of PJM Interconnection’s plan to let 50 power projects, including nuclear and gas-fired plants, cut the line and connect to the grid ahead of [...]
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Dr. Tim Lenton, a professor at the University of Exeter. Last year [...]
A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump. The Alabama [...]
For Stuart Garbett, clocking into the office in the summer meant traversing the sprawling, mountainous terrain of the Bridger-Teton National Forest in western Wyoming. As a seasonal wilderness ranger with [...]
The Trump administration has directed a federal agency to disconnect its electric vehicle charging stations, part of the president’s agenda to roll back progress on EVs and clean energy. An [...]
Pennsylvania’s wetlands face a new threat from a Trump administration order that directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to “fast-track” applications by fossil-fuel and other companies to build infrastructure [...]
CANTON, N.C.—This resilient mountain town of 4,400 people west of Asheville has endured more hardship in the last four years than seems fair: Tropical Storm Fred in 2021. The closure [...]
Next week, not far from where thousands of Indigenous and environmental activists gathered in North Dakota nine years ago in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, one of the most [...]
On the same day the Trump administration announced it was freezing federal funds dedicated to electric vehicle projects, the largest electric utility in Illinois announced a $100 million rebate program [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Numbers of animals once hunted as vermin are rising across the continent. But scientists worry about how we are going to get along with these predatorsEurope’s carnivores have had a [...]
Research group says discovery could lead to new type of environmentally friendly farmingA biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in [...]
UK food producers plan more protests over inheritance tax changes ahead of this week’s NFU conference in LondonThe suits and black cabs which typically dot the streets around Westminster have [...]
Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decadesLabour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines [...]
Former federal employees devastated by president’s mass firings: ‘We’re at risk of losing our public lands to the billionaire agenda’Approximately 2,300 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage [...]
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.
A new study details how, as wealthy countries rewild farmland, they are driving the destruction of forests in poorer countries that are more abundant in wildlife.Read more on E360 → [...]
Solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from growing crops or grazing livestock under PV panels [...]
Dark algae are spreading across the Greenland ice sheet as snow retreats. Their dark color causes ice to absorb more heat from the sun, accelerating melting, and according to a [...]
Robin Wall Kimmerer, the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, recently published The Serviceberry, which explores the economies of nature. In an e360 interview, the Native American ecologist discusses reciprocity, gratitude, [...]
Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red deer have proliferated. Researchers say that returning wolves to the Highlands would [...]
In cars, pollution doesn't come from exhaust alone. It also comes from wear and tear on roads, tires, and brakes. According to new research, tiny bits of dust cast off [...]
Killer whales have begun to migrate farther into previously icy regions of the Arctic, preying on narwhal, beluga, and bowhead. Scientists say their increasing numbers could shift food webs in [...]
Since war broke out in Ukraine, Western airlines have been charting longer routes to avoid flying over Russia, with a discernible impact on emissions.Read more on E360 → [...]
The world is set to blow past its goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, new research shows.Read more on E360 → [...]
Inside Climate News
ORLANDO, Fla.—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year. The Center for Biological [...]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of PJM Interconnection’s plan to let 50 power projects, including nuclear and gas-fired plants, cut the line and connect to the grid ahead of [...]
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Dr. Tim Lenton, a professor at the University of Exeter. Last year [...]
A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump. The Alabama [...]
For Stuart Garbett, clocking into the office in the summer meant traversing the sprawling, mountainous terrain of the Bridger-Teton National Forest in western Wyoming. As a seasonal wilderness ranger with [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00555-9Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00506-4Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00539-9Crows make a huge number of different sounds; Artificial Intelligence could help us understand what they mean. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00426-3More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00530-4Identifying tumours using blood samples is possible, but researchers are still working out how to validate and deploy multi-cancer tests. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00467-8Through comprehensive genomic and immune analyses, mechanisms of lung cancer resistance after treatment with EGFR inhibition and vaccine therapy were investigated. This case report, [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00538-wCan mindfulness, meditation and other tools designed to boost well-being make a difference? Adam Levy investigates. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00552-yObjects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online. [...]
Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08782-wStructural dynamics of human fatty acid synthase in the condensing cycle [...]
Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08789-3Author Correction: The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans [...]
Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00534-0The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. [...]
Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08587-xUsing cryo-electron microscopy, the structures of mammalian fatty acid synthase reveal how the acyl carrier protein dynamically shuttles intermediates between selected active sites. [...]
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
U.S President Donald Trump and his senior adviser, tech billionaire Elon Musk, recently imposed a 90-day freeze on nearly all USAID projects. USAID is known for funding health and humanitarian [...]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pushing to approve exploratory oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River before November’s U.N. COP30, an initiative which clashes with [...]
ANDRANOTSIMATY, Madagascar — On an August afternoon, a conspiracy of golden-crowned sifakas made their way across Andranotsimaty, a settlement inside Loky Manambato Protected Area in Madagascar. There are other kinds [...]
This analysis was conceived by its author as a trilogy of commentaries in the wake of Decision 16/2 from the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention [...]
For primate sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 has begun with panic, worry and uncertainty as they are caught between the ongoing armed conflict in the [...]
Grist
Compared to surrounding states, New Hampshire’s rural communities lag in charging stations, threatening the tourism sector. Suspending federal funds could make it difficult to accelerate construction. [...]
Scott Mason IV is the new administrator for the EPA region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 Tribal Nations. [...]
EPA chief Lee Zeldin has launched an attack on the agency’s $20 billion clean energy loan program. [...]
Tapping low-hanging clouds could be a cheap way to boost dwindling water supplies, according to new research. [...]
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… [...]