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Two-week public inquiry sees last communication before deep-sea disaster near wreck of Titanic last year. [...]
The Polaris Dawn crew is back following a mission featuring the world's first commercial spacewalk. [...]
As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit. [...]
A public hearing is set to examine the events surrounding the catastrophic failure of Oceangate’s submersible. [...]
Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world [...]
Two Italian men were arrested at a Sri Lankan wildlife park after they were found with hundreds of protected insects. [...]
A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken. [...]
The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky. [...]
Efforts to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis will now focus on vaccinating badgers not killing them. [...]
A leading conservation group wants the government to give the go-ahead to bringing back beavers in the wild. [...]
Smoke from wildfires in north America has brought a "vivid" hue to skies above Britain ahead of a rare lunar phenomenon. [...]
The Queen guitarist has led a 10-year study to combat bovine TB spread and help end badger culling. [...]
British forces are about to get their first dedicated surveillance and reconnaissance satellite. [...]
The islands could reveal why animal life first emerged on our planet after its biggest ever freeze. [...]
A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora. [...]
Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience. [...]
A frozen block of ice far bigger than Greater London is captured in a vast pool of rotating water. [...]
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows. [...]
The creature, the size of a poppy seed, dates back 520 million years and is almost perfectly preserved. [...]
Scientists say they have new evidence that complex life on Earth began much earlier than previously believed. [...]
Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust. [...]
The California-based company will build a "tugboat" to execute the end-of-life disposal of the ISS. [...]
A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up? [...]
At the end of the last century, a wealthy few lived the dream of flying faster than the speed of sound, crossing the ocean in champagne-and-caviar style in a needle-nosed [...]
A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and [...]
At 21, Olivia Vesovich has already put more on the line for the climate fight than most people, regardless of age. In 2020, Vesovich was just 16 and wrapping up [...]
ROATÁN, Honduras—Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no [...]
Over the past few months, a string of large American asset managers have left Climate Action 100+, a global investor group created to ensure that the largest corporate emitters of [...]
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by managing producer Jenni Doering with reporter Daniel Shailer on managed retreat in coastal South Carolina. [...]
Amid an unusual September heat wave, several major wildfires are raging simultaneously out West. As climate change fuels more severe infernos, a fairly new field of study has emerged to [...]
For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi River, raising prices for companies that transport goods downstream [...]
Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering damage earlier this year. The tubes, called river outlet works, have been a focus [...]
Proposals to build California’s first carbon storage facilities are facing key tests in the coming weeks, beginning with a vote by the Kern County Planning Commission Thursday night. The commission [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world isEurope floods – latest updatesPicturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water [...]
Soaring sea temperatures have made the celebrated gastropod lethargic and infertile, so scientists are helping the threatened species to reproduceOf the many novel initiatives dreamed up by scientists to protect [...]
Exclusive: Labour will also boost environmental efforts by reestablishing climate role cut by Rishi SunakThe UK government is planning to appoint a special envoy for nature for the first time, [...]
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tallyBig tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in [...]
The hoiho, which means ‘noise shouter’, triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the competitionOne of the world’s rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of [...]
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.
Brazilian officials say they have nearly rid Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon of the thousands of miners who had been operating illegally in the region. Read more on [...]
Indigenous Peruvians have long faced violent attacks by miners, loggers, coca growers, and drug traffickers, but a troubling new report finds that murders of environmental defenders are on the rise.Read [...]
With support from a $5 billion EPA program, school districts across the country are starting to switch from polluting diesel to electric buses. Advocates point to the health benefits for [...]
The Line Fire in Southern California is giving rise to massive billowing "fire clouds."Read more on E360 → [...]
By practicing agroforestry — growing trees alongside crops and livestock, for example — farmers can improve soils, produce nutrient-rich foods, and build resilience to climate change. Now, a movement is [...]
The city of Linhares, Brazil, has granted legal rights to the waves at the mouth of the Dolce River, the first instance in which a government has conferred rights upon [...]
The summer of 2024 set new records, European scientists have found. The world has never seen temperatures reach so high between June and August. Read more on E360 → [...]
In the Mojave Desert, rising temperatures, less rainfall, and more intense wildfires are killing off Joshua trees. California officials are working on a plan to protect the distinctive yucca tree [...]
Global warming has fueled an exceptional drought on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, a new analysis finds.Read more on E360 → [...]
Inside Climate News
At the end of the last century, a wealthy few lived the dream of flying faster than the speed of sound, crossing the ocean in champagne-and-caviar style in a needle-nosed [...]
A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and [...]
At 21, Olivia Vesovich has already put more on the line for the climate fight than most people, regardless of age. In 2020, Vesovich was just 16 and wrapping up [...]
ROATÁN, Honduras—Years later, Luisa Connor and Vanessa Cárdenas would look back ruefully on the day foreigners visited their beachfront village with plans for a development next door. They had no [...]
Over the past few months, a string of large American asset managers have left Climate Action 100+, a global investor group created to ensure that the largest corporate emitters of [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02873-wExtremely remote islands are more likely than less isolated ones to have a high number of endemic languages. [...]
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02999-xYakamoz Kizildas collects the DNA of humpback whales to learn about their behaviour in the North Atlantic ocean. [...]
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02997-zCan science be a route to peace and common understanding? A glance at the history of one institution shows: only when scientists actively commit [...]
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03031-yDiseases such as West Nile virus and dengue are becoming increasingly common as the insects that spread them move north. [...]
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02998-yArtificial-intelligence models are typically used online, but a host of openly available tools is changing that. Here’s how to get started with local AIs. [...]
Nature, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02996-0An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those seeking to [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02875-8Scientists create textiles with just the right weave and yarn to keep biting insects at bay. [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02965-7A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid [...]
Nature, Published online: 13 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03028-7How our neuron activity drops in high-stakes situations, meet the organizations fighting for Ukrainian science and discover a chatbot that can pop the conspiracy-thinking [...]
Nature, Published online: 12 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02969-3Study of a reverberation that rang around the world reveals a new type of geological event fuelled by global warming. [...]
Nature, Published online: 12 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02956-8Study links this phenomenon to the brain region that controls movement. [...]
Nature, Published online: 12 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02876-7Discovery could help to identify ways to prevent relapse into opioid usage. [...]
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 2023, environmental activist Daniel Frits Maurits Tangkilisan was sentenced to seven months in prison under Indonesia’s controversial online hate speech law. His crime? A Facebook post criticizing illegal shrimp [...]
POHUWATO, Indonesia — Lukman Ahmad managed in the end to drag himself down from the slopes of Mount Pani toward the southern coast of Indonesia’s Pohuwato district. When he staggered [...]
Reports show it failed (or sabotaged) airspace control and food deliveries to the Indigenous people, who suffer from malnutrition as a result of mercury contamination from illegal mining. [...]
Investment managers with a combined $8 trillion in assets under management are urging the banks in their portfolios to eliminate deforestation from their lending and investment practices. The new guidelines [...]
High rates of inbreeding among hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa spell trouble for their future, according to a newly published study. The study found that despite wide differences [...]
Grist
An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands. [...]
At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity. [...]
Labor and state leaders wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy. [...]
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires. [...]
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… [...]