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After an almost 40-year campaign, a little-known UK landscape has been awarded world heritage status. [...]
The fossils hold clues as to how mammals that lived in the shadow of dinosaurs evolved to dominate the world. [...]
Wild chimpanzees, like humans, take fast-paced turns in conversation, and often interrupt each other. [...]
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean. [...]
Cutting electricity bills would persuade more people to install heat pumps, the government is told. [...]
It is the first cave to be discovered on the Moon and could protect astronauts from radiation. [...]
Scientists are collecting eggs from rhinos in zoos in a bid to boost the gene pool of wild rhinos. [...]
A white-tailed eagle that broke its wing has taken to the skies after its parents nursed it back to health. [...]
False claims about weather manipulation and geoengineering have been spreading online. What are the facts? [...]
The number of hurricanes is not increasing, but they are becoming more intense as the world warms. [...]
A chance scroll on the internet led the actor Michael Sheen on a journey to uncover a dark secret. [...]
How scientists are discovering secrets of Antarctic climate change in the bodies of giant humpback whales. [...]
Countryside and wildlife conservation groups want a judicial review of government action on nature loss. [...]
The Royal Society of Chemistry says the current regulation of chemicals is 'not fit for purpose'. [...]
Europe's Earthcare satellite will tell us if the planet could lose the cooling effect of clouds. [...]
Stunning spectacle is witnessed by millions across the continent. Here are some of the stories. [...]
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? [...]
Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California’s role as a global climate leader. Yet it’s hard to defend that claim as long as California remains one of the nation’s top oil-refining [...]
As the Salton Sea shrinks, a crisis deepens. The water levels of the 345-square-mile lake, located in an arid swath of agricultural land in Southern California’s Imperial County, have been [...]
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, executive producer and host Steve Curwood and managing producer Jenni Doering discuss Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala [...]
It was supposed to be a triumphant moment. Five months ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to a union hall in Scranton to announce a new energy plan his administration [...]
Athletes from more than 200 countries have convened in Paris for the Olympic Games. But looming over it is the memory of the last summer Olympics in 2021, the hottest [...]
Elena can pinpoint the exact moment her climate distress began to overtake her life. “I can remember … just laying in bed with my sister, and we’re both crying, and [...]
Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms have started sooner and had longer peak periods over the past decade compared to earlier years, newly released data shows. Warming temperatures linked to climate [...]
Efforts are growing in the West to block the Bureau of Land Management’s new public land policy aimed at enhancing the conservation and ecological health of public lands. The WEST [...]
PHOENIX—In the middle of summer in the nation’s hottest city, water experts from local governments, tribal nations, universities and industry groups gathered Monday to discuss how the federal government could [...]
Ongoing deadly heat waves around the world, set against the backdrop of a seemingly endless series of annual, monthly and daily heat records on every continent and ocean, prompted United [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Energy secretary seeks to reestablish UK as a global leader on the climate crisis with meeting of Cop presidentsLabour will honour a pledge of £11.6bn in overseas aid for the [...]
Farne Islands, Northumberland: A school trip across the waves made me feel seasick, but it was worth itA gust of wind flew at me and the water soaked me, leaving [...]
National Whale and Dolphin Watch organisers say data collected will help with research into marine mammalsHundreds of wildlife enthusiasts are expected to gather along UK coastlines over the next 10 [...]
Communities affected by construction of renewable energy infrastructure ‘have the right to see the benefits’UK politics live – latest updatesLabour will seek to persuade people living near proposed pylon routes [...]
Connection found between early exposure and bronchitic symptoms in adults without previous lung problemsAir pollution breathed in during childhood is one of the factors in adult lung health, according to [...]
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.
To track the sources of mercury pollution across wildlands in the U.S., scientists have turned to an unlikely indictor: dragonfly larvae.Read more on E360 → [...]
The global steel industry is turning away from polluting coal-fired blast furnaces and toward cleaner electric arc furnaces, which now account for roughly half of all planned steelmaking capacity, according [...]
Federal officials are set to launch an effort to save the threatened northern spotted owl by killing thousands of invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The initiative is supported [...]
A new study suggests that metals scattered about the deep ocean may be producing oxygen, a finding that could strengthen the case against controversial deep-sea mining.Read more on E360 → [...]
An international body of botanists voted Thursday to rename more than 200 species of plants, fungi, and algae whose scientific names include variations of the word "caffra," an Arabic word [...]
Roishetta Ozane founded a grassroots organization to help frontline Louisiana communities recover from back-to-back hurricanes. Soon, she was educating people about the deadly interconnections between gas export plants, climate disasters, [...]
Newly released photographs from the Peruvian Amazon show dozens of uncontacted Indigenous people, members of the Mashco Piro tribe, only a few miles from an area where logging is set [...]
Despite warnings that climate change would create widespread desertification, many drylands are getting greener because of increased CO2 in the air — a trend that recent studies indicate will continue. [...]
By melting Arctic sea ice, warming has led to a growth of shipping through the Northwest Passage, a route from Europe to Asia that traces the northern edge of Canada. [...]
Inside Climate News
Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California’s role as a global climate leader. Yet it’s hard to defend that claim as long as California remains one of the nation’s top oil-refining [...]
As the Salton Sea shrinks, a crisis deepens. The water levels of the 345-square-mile lake, located in an arid swath of agricultural land in Southern California’s Imperial County, have been [...]
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, executive producer and host Steve Curwood and managing producer Jenni Doering discuss Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala [...]
It was supposed to be a triumphant moment. Five months ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro traveled to a union hall in Scranton to announce a new energy plan his administration [...]
Athletes from more than 200 countries have convened in Paris for the Olympic Games. But looming over it is the memory of the last summer Olympics in 2021, the hottest [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07845-8Publisher Correction: Interferon subverts an AHR–JUN axis to promote CXCL13+ T cells in lupus [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02465-8Observations of electron neutrinos could allow physicists to test theories about the particles’ behaviour. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02426-1Heart injury is reduced in mice when the cells that trigger inflammation are blocked. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02466-7Genes associated with postpartum haemorrhage spotlight a hormone’s role in dangerous bleeding after childbirth. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02480-9The tragic quest to develop a gene-editing therapy for a rare neurodegenerative disease showcases the messy state of modern drug development. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02424-3A bouquet of genes involved in making volatile compounds helps to produce the flower’s characteristic scent. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02484-5Unions are joining the Biden administration’s campaign to promote scientific integrity and protect government scientists from political interference. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02463-wA man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02423-4Communications relating to retractions are often still opaque and lacking in detail, but an analysis finds some evidence of improvement. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02482-7Julie Gould learns that age is no barrier to enjoying interesting work and life opportunities in retirement. [...]
Nature, Published online: 26 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02485-4Scientific advancement relies on equitable international collaboration. And right now, it’s not equitable enough. [...]
Nature, Published online: 25 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07849-4Spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus to dairy cattle [...]
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
Mexico has pledged to more than double its clean energy output by 2030, investing in solar and wind power while transitioning away from fossil fuels. Yet the country continues to [...]
For many people across sub-Saharan Africa, Cleome gyandra, commonly known as the spider plant, is not food: it’s a weed. A tall, leggy plant with stars of almond-shaped leaves and [...]
Gold mining has been a feature of the Andean Amazon since pre-Colombian times and, along with silver, it was the cornerstone of the economy in the colonial and republican periods. [...]
The Amazon’s most fertile, productive forests, which are critical for supplying Brazil’s agricultural region with rainfall, are also the most vulnerable to drought, according to recent research that has mapped [...]
KATHMANDU — Amid the tall, rustling elephant grass on the banks of a nearly stagnant Rapti River, half a dozen spotted deer approach mounds of rhino excrement. Unbeknown to them, [...]
Grist
A perfect storm of hurricanes, diseases, and water scarcity threatens to wipe out the state's famed citrus industry. [...]
A new study warns that the push for renewable energy could exacerbate socioeconomic disparities among Indigenous communities. [...]
GE Vernova’s initial analysis found that the fundamental design is sound and the failure of a turbine off the coast of Nantucket originated in the factory that built the blade. [...]
Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarizing? [...]
Nitrogen dioxide levels near e-commerce warehouses are 20 percent higher than in other neighborhoods. It can even be measured from space. [...]
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… [...]