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A wildfire-fuelled ozone hole leaves Antarctic wildlife exposed to potentially damaging levels of UV. [...]
Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia. [...]
Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US. [...]
"We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit," said one of the older Swiss women who won. [...]
Stunning spectacle is witnessed by millions across the continent. Here are some of the stories. [...]
It's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño. [...]
The ECT allowed fossil-fuel companies to sue governments for billions in compensation for lost profits. [...]
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark. [...]
Agencies and scientists from around the world head to the UK to share space-exploration techniques. [...]
The US space agency is seeking a cheaper, faster solution to bring Martian rocks to Earth for study. [...]
The renowned scientist came up with revolutionary ideas in the 1960s, sparking a 50-year search for evidence. [...]
Scientist Marie Makuate wants more African countries to have their own satellites orbiting Earth. [...]
Medical experts often call heat a “silent killer” because many people don’t notice the signs of heat stress until it is too late. But as climate change accelerates, the impacts [...]
This article is published in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times. Electricity from renewable sources dropped last year even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as [...]
This article was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for its free weekly newsletters at publicsource.org. This story was supported by the Pulitzer [...]
A Houston-based company’s first effort to turn plastic waste into the chemical feedstocks for new plastic products has crumbled amid unanswered questions about its technology, trouble securing the necessary permits [...]
In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s [...]
NEW YORK—Climate demonstrators blocked entrances to Citibank’s headquarters in Manhattan at the start of the workday on Wednesday and Thursday, part of a series of Earth Week actions pressuring the [...]
The Biden administration punctuated Earth Week by finalizing a sweeping set of regulations for power plants—the source of one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution—that are designed to hasten the transition [...]
One of the sideshows in a wild week for Tesla is how its market capitalization tumbled behind and then jumped back ahead of ExxonMobil. The fact that this is even [...]
OAK GROVE, Ala.—Clara Riley and her family had a lot of questions. But on Monday, as they gathered around the 90-year-old’s small kitchen table, they weren’t getting many answers. Kristie [...]
This story was originally published by Hakai and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Panel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technologyA UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new [...]
Group banned plants ‘removed from habitat’ from its shows – causing uproar from enthusiastsA furious row has blown up in the UK’s leading succulent society over the practice of taking [...]
Open letter calls for green policies that empower farmers, after months of protests jeopardise future of flagship biodiversity dealThe EU’s nature restoration law will only work if it is enacted [...]
Soiled seas and huge shareholder dividends: where has the £64bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone?So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been [...]
Researchers also find zebra finches 20% less likely to hatch from eggs if exposed to noise pollutionNoise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, [...]
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.
Climate change made the disastrous 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest larger and longer-lasting than it would have been otherwise, a new study finds.Read more on E360 → [...]
The European eel, whose life cycle remains shrouded in mystery, is a staple of the continent’s cultures and cuisines. But after decades of decline in its populations, scientists are calling [...]
Wind and solar are continuing to push fossil fuels off the U.K. power grid. So far this year wind is the nation's leading source of electricity, and for brief periods, [...]
To reach its climate goals, the Biden administration aims to extend the lives of U.S. nuclear reactors. But a new report finds regulators have not studied whether increasingly extreme weather [...]
For billions of years, the oceans have been absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Now, to boost that drawdown, startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by [...]
A new report alleges the U.N. has been complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from six World Heritage Sites in Africa and Asia.Read more on E360 → [...]
Reprising her role as Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva is determined to reverse the rampant destruction of the Amazon. In an e360 interview, she talks about her efforts to crack [...]
Greece plans to create two large marine parks and end bottom trawling, it announced Tuesday. It also aims to cut the volume of plastic waste flowing into Greek waters in [...]
More than 80 years after the iconic Xerces Blue butterfly vanished from San Francisco, researchers have analyzed century-old specimens to track down its closest living relative, the Silvery Blue. Last [...]
Inside Climate News
Medical experts often call heat a “silent killer” because many people don’t notice the signs of heat stress until it is too late. But as climate change accelerates, the impacts [...]
This article is published in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times. Electricity from renewable sources dropped last year even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as [...]
This article was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for its free weekly newsletters at publicsource.org. This story was supported by the Pulitzer [...]
A Houston-based company’s first effort to turn plastic waste into the chemical feedstocks for new plastic products has crumbled amid unanswered questions about its technology, trouble securing the necessary permits [...]
In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 27 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01256-5Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01251-wNew research is revealing the mechanisms linking loneliness and conditions like dementia, depression and cardiovascular disease. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01201-6People with Laron syndrome have a low risk of heart disease and a number of other age-related disorders, hinting at strategies for new treatments. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01257-4Moving to non-profit work requires researchers to shift their mindset to focus on applied science for policymaking and conservation practice. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01229-8Researchers from several disciplines hope to predict — and prevent — scenarios that pose risks to humanity. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01145-xThe common fungus Aspergillus niger removes both heavy metals and organic pollutants from its surroundings. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01148-8Carbon emissions from flights that departed from low- and middle-income countries in 2019 totalled 417 million tonnes. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01222-1Scientists develop hybrid mice by filling in missing cells and structures in their brains with rat stem cells. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01128-yStunning images show an ecosystem’s upheaval as it warms at an alarming pace. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01246-7By joining a collecting society, researchers can ensure they are paid when copyrighted book content and papers are reproduced. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01253-8A patient-analyst relationship to psychoanalyst Carl Jung that evolved into a friendship deeply influenced physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s work. Plus, organoids shed light on cancer [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01223-0The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries. [...]
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
CALABRIA, Italy — “On our coasts there is … a massive presence, that everyone can see, of poachers and illegal fishermen,” a fisher in Calabria, in southwestern Italy, told Mongabay. [...]
Orchids (members of the family Orchidaceae) are diverse flowering plants with colorful and fragrant blooms and are often described as neglected plants in Nepal, where an estimated 500 or so [...]
Companies implicated in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing can have a serious impact on the economies, job opportunities and overall welfare of the developing countries in whose waters they [...]
The Airbus Foundation and the Connected Conservation Foundation have announced the winners of the second edition of their Satellites for Biodiversity Award. The four winners of the award are international [...]
This story is part of a Mongabay series on female environmental defenders in the Amazon. Read about the lives and work of Soraida Chindoy, Maydany Salcedo, and Alis Ramírez. It [...]
Grist
Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis. [...]
From harassment to kidnapping and arrest, Indigenous advocates who face reprisals for their work say the U.N. must protect them. [...]
With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions. [...]
Twenty-three states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice. [...]
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident. [...]
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… [...]