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The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis". [...]
Forest Research said the UK is the first country to eradicate the beetle after five-year battle. [...]
Live explosives on army training sites in the UK countryside mean many wildfires cannot be tackled. [...]
The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved [...]
The Starship rocket is critical to the company's hopes of one day carrying people to the Moon and Mars. [...]
The photo taken by Bidyut Kalita, is among several highly commended in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year. [...]
The medium-sized herbivore once roamed the floodplains of what is now the Island's south-west coast. [...]
We rely on honeybees to pollinate our crops and a new food could protect them from growing threats. [...]
How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing. [...]
The Environment Agency are currently considering enforcement action against the operator, Viridor. [...]
The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling. [...]
Rising temperatures are increasing the chances of multiple wildfires at the same time, researchers say. [...]
Experts have tracked the Southern Small White's expansion northwards through Europe over decades. [...]
Campaigners warn the move will not close all the recycling loopholes being exploited by criminals. [...]
Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita snail. [...]
The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say. [...]
A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean. [...]
The earthquake was one of the strongest ever recorded, but its tsunami was not as bad as feared. [...]
BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change. [...]
Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon. [...]
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago sheds new light on the rise of Ancient Egypt. [...]
We take a look at river, reservoir and groundwater levels after a particularly dry few months. [...]
Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first. [...]
Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain. [...]
The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasibility. [...]
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 government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis". [...]
Wildfires have scorched southern Europe and new research suggests climate change played a major role. [...]
Some five million children - over half of those in England - are living in homes at risk of overheating. [...]
Provisional figures from the Met Office show that the UK is on course for its hottest summer on record with just a few days of the season remaining. [...]
Non-vintage still wine is now increasingly being made in response to more challenging weather. [...]
We rely on honeybees to pollinate our crops and a new food could protect them from growing threats. [...]
The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling. [...]
A former Oceangate employee says he told US authorities about safety concerns with the sub before it imploded. [...]
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. [...]
First of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water quality and habitat resilience on the coast of Maine. SIPAYIK, Maine—On the Sipayik peninsula in [...]
SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been entwined with the story of the Passamaquoddy tribe for 13,000 years. Archaeological digs at ancient tribal sites have uncovered “middens,” or piles of discarded clamshells from [...]
Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and disengages from international climate efforts, 46 American researchers have been chosen as authors for [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost [...]
CHESTER, Pa.—In this small city south of Philadelphia, trash is a problem. A thick white cloud rising from Reworld’s Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility, the largest trash incinerator in the [...]
Farmworkers and their families have long demanded the right to know when and where growers plan to spray dangerous pesticides in their communities. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation finally [...]
EL PASO—The Rio Grande flows over 1,800 miles from the mountains of southwestern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. A lawsuit filed in 2013 between Texas and New Mexico over [...]
CHICAGO—Samuel Corona’s environmental organizing career started over coffee. He was only supposed to talk with Peggy Salazar, then executive director of the Southeast Environmental Task Force, for half an hour. [...]
Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits and business alliances, putting them on [...]
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.—It was already too late. As Hurricane Katrina blew ashore along the Gulf Coast with winds over 125 miles an hour, Truong Van Dai, an oyster shucker, [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Unspecified number of vessels due to depart Barcelona on Sunday, with dozens more expected to leave other Mediterranean ports on 4 SeptemberA flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish [...]
Transforming bare and compacted soil in vineyards can boost numbers of important invertebrate, say advocatesVineyards are generally the most inhospitable of landscapes for the humble earthworm; the soil beneath vines [...]
Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded missionEarlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of [...]
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummetThe UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst [...]
Inkpen, Berkshire: It’s been an awful year for their breeding numbers, yet here we are, at our back garden gate, watching two young adults that feel like our ownMost evenings [...]
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.
Bison have made a remarkable comeback in Yellowstone National Park, going from fewer than two dozen animals at the turn of the last century to roughly 5,000 today. Their return, [...]
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.Read more on E360 → [...]
Every year the Natural History Museum in London honors the best wildlife photographers from around the world, highlighting 100 extraordinary photos of nature. This year, the finalists were selected from [...]
Scientists have shown that U.S. oil and gas drilling sites are not just leaking methane but also a host of toxic chemicals that pose an urgent threat to the health [...]
In “Slaughter-land” — the First-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — two Latin American filmmakers document how hundreds of mega-farms that contain tens of thousands of [...]
A growing number of people globally are seeing wildfires encroach on their homes. That is not because wildfires are burning more land, however. Over the last two decades, the number [...]
Over the past three decades, the number of whale strandings in Scotland has grown dramatically, a new study shows. Scientists say pollution and industrial noise may be driving the losses.Read [...]
For the first time, wind and solar are beginning to displace coal power in China, causing emissions to drop. Analyst Lauri Myllyvirta explores the challenges ahead for policymakers, who must [...]
Meltwater flowing from the Greenland ice sheet is stirring up nutrients from the ocean depths, fueling algal blooms. A new study reveals the extent to which melting is driving the [...]
Inside Climate News
First of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water quality and habitat resilience on the coast of Maine. SIPAYIK, Maine—On the Sipayik peninsula in [...]
SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been entwined with the story of the Passamaquoddy tribe for 13,000 years. Archaeological digs at ancient tribal sites have uncovered “middens,” or piles of discarded clamshells from [...]
Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and disengages from international climate efforts, 46 American researchers have been chosen as authors for [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost [...]
CHESTER, Pa.—In this small city south of Philadelphia, trash is a problem. A thick white cloud rising from Reworld’s Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility, the largest trash incinerator in the [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09563-1Author Correction: Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02725-1Average expected lifespan is still increasing in high-income countries, but the rate of increase is slowing. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02733-1Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02736-yThe month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02741-1Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02470-5The professional-networking platform helped Elena Hoffer to launch a company and sparked a global conversation to re-imagine academia. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02772-8Analysis of almost 15 million people shows the trend increases with each decade, across cultures and generations. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02770-wSome researchers say that US-agency policies provide opportunities for political interference. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02497-8A new generation of researchers is using the platform to build audiences and monetize their knowledge. [...]
Nature, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02782-6System that searches for signs of bad practice could help to weed out questionable titles. [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09552-4Author Correction: Endophilin marks and controls a clathrin-independent endocytic pathway [...]
Nature, Published online: 28 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02771-9Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries. [...]
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
Villa Blanca Reef off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is home to emblematic and endangered species, and is the site a coral restoration project with 35 platforms growing different species of coral. [...]
From its source in the wetlands near Zambia’s northwestern border, through the industrial zones of the Copperbelt, to where it plunges through a steep gorge toward the Zambezi, the Kafue [...]
In Cape Town, South Africa, an ongoing conflict between people and baboons has escalated to the point that local authorities are considering culling 117 animals from four troops, roughly a [...]
I write this while waiting for my tablet to die. Tomorrow, I’ll return to air-conditioning, stable WiFi and refrigeration, but here in Long Moh, deep in the remote Upper Baram [...]
Over the last several years, the Colombian government has taken steps to end oil and gas drilling in the Amazon. It pledged to stop issuing new exploration licenses and signed [...]
Grist
Changes in U.S. government support for electric vehicles have led to a buying bonanza — and a darker long-term future for the auto industry. [...]
“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy. [...]
Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers. [...]
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… [...]