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Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world's most diverse marine environments [...]
Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting [...]
The dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, is an ancestor of the mighty tyrannosaurs. [...]
Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods [...]
Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge. [...]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at the start of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France. [...]
The Prince of Wales gave a speech in Monaco hoping to drive investments to protect the world's oceans. [...]
The energy secretary says the move will cut energy bills, but house builders caution against burdensome regulations. [...]
The UK's saltmarshes lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud, a new report from WWF says. [...]
The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbours property has been removed. [...]
Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village. [...]
Scientists believe cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans using smell alone. [...]
Ministers are considering how costs can be reduced for small firms to help them build more homes. [...]
Three families speak of the "utter hell" of losing their homes to a road scheme that was cancelled. [...]
A US flight was delayed after two birds ended up onboard the aircraft, baffling both passengers and crew. [...]
Charity launches legal challenge as it says problem of over-capacity sewage works near new homes is "rife". [...]
Support ship video shows the wife of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush hearing the sound of the implosion. [...]
The Prince of Wales says his new series on rangers follows in the nature broadcaster's footsteps. [...]
The warning comes as cuts to American research raise fears over the ability to track and prepare for them. [...]
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year. [...]
The company pauses its "retention scheme", which pays out cash to top executives linked to its rescue loan. [...]
Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour. [...]
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades. [...]
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other? [...]
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. [...]
Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting [...]
Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge. [...]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at the start of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France. [...]
Sir David Attenborough told Prince William he hopes the UN oceans conference will bring new protections. [...]
The UK's saltmarshes lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud, a new report from WWF says. [...]
Support ship video shows the wife of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush hearing the sound of the implosion. [...]
A group of researchers have come to Pipestone Creek in Canada to figure out why thousands of dinosaurs are buried here. [...]
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas. [...]
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists. [...]
The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg. [...]
With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient [...]
New York City knows it has a waste management problem. The average city household generated 1,899 pounds of trash in 2023. Only around 17 percent of the city’s curbside waste [...]
The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution [...]
The Department of the Interior announced a proposal last week to cancel its protections of 13 million acres of Alaskan land inside a previously created reserve. More than 40 Indigenous [...]
In the early 20th century, more than a million miners in Britain made a daily descent into the depths of the Earth to extract coal, the country’s main source of [...]
The Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, N.J., has two distinct sections: an immigrant-rich area of rowhouses, ethnic restaurants and shops, and a clogged industrial zone with three power plants, the state’s [...]
JASPER, Ala.—If federal funds designated for Alabama’s mining regulator dry up—there is a 16 percent cut in state grants now being debated in Congress—director Kathy Love believes she has a [...]
A new set of detailed clues gleaned from ancient fossil reefs on the Seychelle Islands shows an increasing likelihood that human-caused warming will raise the global average sea level at [...]
Pennsylvania lawmakers heard conflicting views this week over whether the state should set up a board that oversees the siting and operation of new electric-generating plants amid national fears that [...]
The American Midwest is home to some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world, enabling its transformation into a vast corn- and soy-producing machine—a conversion spurred largely by [...]
President Donald Trump signed congressional resolutions Thursday morning to repeal California’s pioneering vehicle emissions standards, which he called a “disaster for this country.” California was ready. “We made a promise [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices tooThe sea, [...]
Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a yearDonald Trump’s military parade this weekend will bring thousands of [...]
Welfare of sows confined to farrowing crates was compromised and they displayed signs of extreme stress, experts sayThe use of restrictive pens to temporarily house pregnant pigs in the UK [...]
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoodsOne day in 1983, while studying a [...]
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.
Of the forest lost so far this century, roughly a third was destroyed to make room for farms, a new analysis finds. Those woodlands, which spanned an area larger than [...]
A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and demolition that now ends up in landfills. The challenge, proponents say, is to deploy [...]
The flooding of Ukraine’s Irpin valley thwarted Russia’s assault on Kyiv in 2022. Now, scientists are proposing Europe create a band of restored and protected wetlands along its eastern borders [...]
Chinese locales are looking to lure top scientific talent from overseas by offering lavish sums for resettling, as well as housing, health care, and other perks. The moves come as [...]
Drug traffickers are violently seizing Indigenous lands in the Peruvian Amazon to clear rainforest and grow coca. To combat the drug trade, a new report calls for titling Indigenous territories [...]
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has obliterated crops and trees, according to a new assessment of the impact.Read more on E360 → [...]
Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird [...]
This spring was the warmest and sunniest on record in the U.K., a symptom of a rapidly warming climate, weather officials say.Read more on E360 → [...]
The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face intimidation and risk arrest as they patrol their forests to [...]
Inside Climate News
New York City knows it has a waste management problem. The average city household generated 1,899 pounds of trash in 2023. Only around 17 percent of the city’s curbside waste [...]
The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution [...]
The Department of the Interior announced a proposal last week to cancel its protections of 13 million acres of Alaskan land inside a previously created reserve. More than 40 Indigenous [...]
In the early 20th century, more than a million miners in Britain made a daily descent into the depths of the Earth to extract coal, the country’s main source of [...]
The Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, N.J., has two distinct sections: an immigrant-rich area of rowhouses, ethnic restaurants and shops, and a clogged industrial zone with three power plants, the state’s [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01854-xThe hearts started to beat in the pig–human hybrids, which survived for 21 days. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01802-9Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01838-xTrafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01803-8Scientists observe the nematode’s behaviour in the wild for the first time. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01863-wResearchers have gathered on the island of Heligoland to celebrate the centenary of Werner Heisenberg's quantum breakthrough. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01804-7The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01524-yAlthough he has pivoted to conservation photography, Sirachai (Shin) Arunrugstichai still considers the ocean as his office. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01629-4As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01862-xEarth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01851-0Are hiring managers asking too much of job-seeking researchers? A comparison between two job ads, posted 30 years apart, offers some clues. [...]
Nature, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09127-3A brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis enables a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to synthesize his voice in real time by decoding neural activity, demonstrating the potential [...]
Nature, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01866-7An MIT engineer has designed a way to restore damaged paintings using printed, AI-generated masks. Plus, a ‘trustworthy’ random number generator and how 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
Some coastal wolves in Alaska, U.S., have toxic levels of mercury in their bodies after shifting from a terrestrial diet of deer and moose to a marine diet heavy with [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee. [...]
Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the borders between modern-day Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda, [...]
The most deforested biome in Brazil, the Cerrado lost 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of native vegetation in 2024. Now, it is about to receive a thermoelectric plant 30 kilometers [...]
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing [...]
Grist
The state Legislature finally passed a proposal to fund backup power for critical facilities like nursing homes and fire stations. [...]
GOP leaders claim that repealing power plant pollution rules and tax breaks for renewables will fuel an energy boom. Experts say they’re doing just the opposite. [...]
The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows. [...]
Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis. A $300,000 grant from the EPA would have helped the traditional Alutiiq community swap costly, polluting diesel for cheaper, clean power. [...]
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… [...]