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Destroying Iran's stores of enriched uranium would bring danger for people nearby but not trigger another Chernobyl. [...]
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn. [...]
Climate change will benefit basking sharks in the UK but creatures like the longest living animal may struggle. [...]
The Environment Agency warns England needs a 'continued and sustained effort' to cut water demand. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn. [...]
Climate change will benefit basking sharks in the UK but creatures like the longest living animal may struggle. [...]
The Environment Agency warns England needs a 'continued and sustained effort' to cut water demand. [...]
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. [...]
Destroying Iran's stores of enriched uranium would bring danger for people nearby but not trigger another Chernobyl. [...]
Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa. [...]
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. [...]
With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient [...]
John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, [...]
The Jones Road fire in New Jersey scorched 15,300 acres for nearly three weeks this spring. Its sickly orange haze vanished hours after the blaze was doused, but a stench [...]
Right before a sweltering weekend in Iowa, the water authority for the Des Moines metro area banned its 600,000 customers from watering their lawns. Though that’s a water conservation practice [...]
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, pastor of New Roots African Methodist Episcopal [...]
The United States Geological Survey released a report on Wednesday showing vast quantities of undiscovered oil and gas resources beneath public lands. The analysis comes as Republicans in Congress try [...]
BESSEMER, Ala.—When a representative for a hotly contested development began to speak inside City Hall here Tuesday evening, the lights went out. A packed room of zoning commissioners and upset [...]
NICE, France—Resolute about their efforts to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s global ocean by 2030, world leaders agreed to sweeping but nonbinding commitments at last week’s United Nations Ocean [...]
This story was published in partnership with Northern Journal and is the second in a two-story series. ELIM, Alaska—Daylight was waning as Beverly Nakarak opened the throttle of her snowmachine [...]
In 2020, Dr. Deborah Gentile helped lead a study that showed children living near major sources of industrial pollution in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County were diagnosed with asthma at triple the [...]
A father died last summer. His son sat on the porch with a baseball glove waiting for a game he never got to play. The man didn’t die in a [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s futureIf [...]
Government issued permit to shoot young female who entered Vilnius, despite only small number left in Baltic countryEurope live – latest updatesA young female bear caused a stir after wandering [...]
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human sufferingThe planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the [...]
Volatile weather patterns may be altering taste of juniper berries – a key botanical in the spirit – scientists sayThe flavour of a gin and tonic may be impacted by [...]
Garments thrown out by consumers from Next, George, M&S and others found in or near conservation areasClothes discarded by UK consumers and shipped to Ghana have been found in 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.
A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists are now reporting a dramatic surge in lightning in the far north and are scrambling to [...]
Heaps of discarded clothing from the U.K. have been dumped in protected wetlands in Ghana, an investigation found.Read more on E360 → [...]
In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a wetland not only improved water quality. It also offered a path forward for restoring populations [...]
When the magnetic field around the Earth grows stronger, oxygen levels rise. That is the surprising finding of a new study looking at more than half a billion years of [...]
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 [...]
Inside Climate News
John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, [...]
The Jones Road fire in New Jersey scorched 15,300 acres for nearly three weeks this spring. Its sickly orange haze vanished hours after the blaze was doused, but a stench [...]
Right before a sweltering weekend in Iowa, the water authority for the Des Moines metro area banned its 600,000 customers from watering their lawns. Though that’s a water conservation practice [...]
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, pastor of New Roots African Methodist Episcopal [...]
The United States Geological Survey released a report on Wednesday showing vast quantities of undiscovered oil and gas resources beneath public lands. The analysis comes as Republicans in Congress try [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09266-7Strategies for climate-resilient global wind and solar power systems [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09285-4Author Correction: Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09239-wEditorial Expression of Concern: Transformation of primary human endothelial cells by Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09117-5On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09118-4Reply to: On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01935-xBogong moths migrate hundreds of kilometres and back each year using the southern night sky as their compass. [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01934-yExperiments suggest moths use the Milky Way to orientate themselves — plus, evidence that humans expanded into new ecosystems 70,000 years ago. [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09180-yDuring visual learning, neural plasticity is driven by unsupervised learning in mice. [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09136-2We present a computational approach to the design of high-efficiency enzymes with catalytic parameters comparable to natural enzymes, enabling programming of stable, high-efficiency, new-to-nature [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09164-yA strategy for engineering photon-avalanche nanoparticles is proposed such that they exhibit an unprecedentedly strong nonlinear optical response and their emissions scale by more [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09171-zInsights into the dogrose genome and centromeres explain their ability to achieve stable sexual reproduction. [...]
Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09190-wIn a mouse model, maternal obesity during pregnancy can lead to fatty liver disease in the offspring, driven by aberrant developmental programming of Kuppfer [...]
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
The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier — out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet efforts to reverse decades of neglect are gaining [...]
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is once again facing a significant marine environmental crisis, as tiny plastic pellets, commonly known as nurdles, have begun washing ashore along the island’s northern coastline. [...]
MAE HONG SON, Thailand — The shores of Myanmar became visible from Sob Moei village in northeastern Thailand as the morning mist rises over the Salween River, the flowing water [...]
In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster [...]
Clownfish are known for their remarkable ability to change sex to survive. Turns out, one species, clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula), popularized in the Pixar hit movie Finding Nemo, have yet [...]
Grist
A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks. [...]
Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers. [...]
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest. [...]
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill targets the tax credits designed to put the U.S. on the path to net-zero carbon emissions. [...]
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… [...]