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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 the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies. [...]
A group of researchers have come to Pipestone Creek in Canada to figure out why thousands of dinosaurs are buried here. [...]
Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour. [...]
The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate. [...]
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas. [...]
First Moon samples collected in nearly 50 years and loaned by China for the first time are now in the UK. [...]
Study provides hope for future of the axolotl amphibian, pushed to the brink of extinction in Mexico. [...]
The prolonged dry, sunny weather in March and April created ideal conditions for wildfires to spread. [...]
Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election. [...]
Scientists are investigating for the first time how dangerous the island's next big one could be. [...]
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target. [...]
Six women - including pop star Katy Perry - blasted off into space as part of an all-women suborbital mission [...]
The couple is suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species such as white tigers. [...]
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. [...]
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year. [...]
The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn. [...]
UK's largest gas storage facility will miss £2bn investment without help, boss of Centrica tells BBC. [...]
Ministers should have been better at planning and making sure green jobs were available, report says. [...]
In a blow to the government's clean energy ambitions, a company cancels a huge windfarm off Yorkshire. [...]
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. [...]
The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months. [...]
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other? [...]
The water surged fast, outpacing local emergency response efforts and trapping nearly 200 students and staff inside Westernport Elementary School in Maryland’s Allegany County. Outside, Georges Creek had already breached [...]
EL PASO, Texas—On a Tuesday afternoon in May, earth system scientist Thomas Gill was tracking yet more dust rolling through this border city. Gill, a member of the faculty at [...]
This article was co-reported with Foreign Policy. A climate super pollutant thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide is being released at a rate far [...]
Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of today’s youngest generations, outpacing the [...]
One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished. Earlier that day, the men had participated in a community meeting [...]
Ahead of Thomas Gleeson’s unanimous vote from a Senate committee Monday to advance his nomination as the chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Sen. Angela Paxton asked the [...]
An environmental organization on the rural Texas coast sued a local school district on Tuesday, alleging it failed to adequately notify the public before entering into tax break negotiations with [...]
A major offshore wind project south of Long Island, New York, is back on track. In April, the Trump administration ordered a stop work order on the Empire Wind 1 [...]
Over the weekend and through Monday, devastating tornadoes, storms and hail slammed parts of the Midwestern and Southern United States, killing more than 25 people and razing dozens of homes. [...]
GADSDEN, Ala.—Cruising upstream on the Coosa River through downtown Gadsden, it would be easy to miss the old coal ash pond sitting on the north bank of the river. It’s [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included campingWild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire [...]
Researchers suggest buzzing noises could be used as environmentally friendly way to enhance crop pollinationPlants can “hear” bees buzzing and serve up more nectar when they are nearby, scientists have [...]
Developer shrinks five-year investment plans by £3bn blaming policy and planning delaysOne of the UK’s biggest energy developers will cut its planned spending on new renewables projects in a blow [...]
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilienceClimate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s “chocolate crisis”, a report has argued, [...]
Doug Burgum defends Trump budget slashing green funds, saying AI and Iran pose bigger threatsThe US has “plenty of time” to solve the climate crisis,” the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, [...]
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.
Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for cattle has performed [...]
Artificial intelligence is being called a game changer for enabling scientists and conservationists to process vast troves of data collected remotely. But some warn its use could keep biologists from [...]
Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas.Read more on E360 → [...]
NASA scientists believe it may be possible to predict when a volcano will erupt by using satellites to track changes in the color of surrounding trees.Read more on E360 → [...]
China’s plans to build a massive hydro project in Tibet have sparked fears about the environmental impacts on the world’s longest and deepest canyon. It has also alarmed neighboring India, [...]
Chimpanzees in Uganda were found treating the injuries of other, unrelated chimps, including those caught in hunting snares. Read more on E360 → [...]
A foreign fleet of industrial trawlers is exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving artisanal fishers to undertake a difficult, and sometimes deadly, migration to Spain.Read more on E360 → [...]
Atoll islands with healthy ecosystems are less likely to disappear as oceans rise, research shows. Now, scientists are using nature-based solutions — like restoring coral reefs and native forests — [...]
Federal enforcement of environmental laws has slowed significantly under President Trump.Read more on E360 → [...]
Inside Climate News
The water surged fast, outpacing local emergency response efforts and trapping nearly 200 students and staff inside Westernport Elementary School in Maryland’s Allegany County. Outside, Georges Creek had already breached [...]
EL PASO, Texas—On a Tuesday afternoon in May, earth system scientist Thomas Gill was tracking yet more dust rolling through this border city. Gill, a member of the faculty at [...]
This article was co-reported with Foreign Policy. A climate super pollutant thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide is being released at a rate far [...]
Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of today’s youngest generations, outpacing the [...]
One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished. Earlier that day, the men had participated in a community meeting [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01628-5Tackling malaria in the insect stage could help control its spread — plus, new research on the complex genetics of pregnancy loss. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08996-yConditional cysteine restriction in mice causes substantial weight loss, exceeding that seen with essential amino acid restriction, by activating the integrated stress and oxidative [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09006-xA planet in a retrograde orbit around a star with a close-in white dwarf companion reveals the role of binary stellar evolution in the [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09041-8The discovery that DNA methylation of different CpG sites can serve as digital barcodes of clonal identity led to the development of EPI-Clone, an [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09020-zCRISPR-TO, a system for programmable control of spatial localization of cellular RNAs, is presented and enables functional investigation of endogenous RNA localization in diverse [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08914-2Gas distribution and motion patterns driven by a galactic bar of the J0107a dusty star-forming galaxy have analogues in local bars, indicating that similar [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08966-4We demonstrate that in a major merging system, radiation from the quasar in one galaxy directly alters the gas properties in the companion galaxy. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09028-5Following spinal cord injury, gamified physical therapy that incorporates closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation can aid restoration of arm and hand function. [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09035-6A precise structure measurement of liquid carbon at pressures of around 1 million atmospheres obtained by in situ X-ray diffraction at an X-ray free-electron [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08997-xA population of TRAIL-positive astrocytes in glioblastoma contributes to an immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment and this mechanism can be targeted with an engineered oncolytic virus [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09019-6C to N atom swapping in indoles is introduced that gives indazoles through oxidative cleavage of the indole heteroarene core and subsequent ring closure, [...]
Nature, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09069-wSLC35B1, initially thought to be a nucleotide sugar transporter, is an essential ATP/ADP exchanger that imports ATP into the endoplasmic reticulum through a unique [...]
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
Macaúba palm, also known as macaw palm, grows all over the Americas. Now, a drive by the Brazilian government to incentivize the decarbonization of the transportation and aviation sectors has [...]
For the last several decades, global biodiversity has been in crisis. Yet, as we celebrate International Day for Biodiversity on May 22, which commemorates the adoption of the Convention on [...]
A special commission tasked with addressing land disputes and Indigenous rights in Chile delivered a historic final report to the president earlier this month, making a series of recommendations meant [...]
Judging by the last few summers, Rio de Janeiro’s residents should be preparing for the worst. On March 17, 2024, the neighborhood of Guaratiba, in the city’s West Zone, recorded [...]
INDIAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR — Since the year 2000, the wildlife department in the Indian-administered part of the Kashmir region has recorded more than 2,300 bear attacks on humans, some of them [...]
Grist
"Sabotage" tells the story of the real people behind Just Stop Oil's controversial, soup-throwing stunts. [...]
Nationwide, tens of thousands of Indigenous households use firewood to help heat their homes. That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is making sure their elders have the [...]
After Vermont and New York passed "climate Superfund" legislation, 11 states have introduced similar bills this year. [...]
While Solar for All funds languish, the state continues to lag behind most of the nation when it comes to renewable energy. [...]
A former EPA official warns exemption for some coal-fired power plants could be the first step toward gutting pollution rules for all plants. [...]
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… [...]