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Scientists have been racing to discover the origins of 3I/Atlas since it was spotted last week. [...]
Following a series of eruptions three weeks ago, Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has begun spewing hot ash and lava again. [...]
Following the Texas floods some Democrats have warned about the "consequences" of President Trump's cuts to the federal workforce. [...]
The newly discovered flying reptile is the oldest pterosaur in North America. [...]
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. [...]
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide. [...]
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. [...]
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become only the second Indian to travel to space. [...]
The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system. [...]
Shoreline litter data research shows policies caused a relative decrease in the percentage of plastic bags. [...]
Orcas have been filmed using kelp as a tool to massage each other [...]
Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa. [...]
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn. [...]
The Environment Agency warns England needs a 'continued and sustained effort' to cut water demand. [...]
The long-term impact of the chemical on human health is still unclear and being researched. [...]
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 government wants to prohibit bottom trawling from more protected areas of UK waters. [...]
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. [...]
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? [...]
Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of Florida. [...]
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. [...]
Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched. [...]
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. [...]
Sea temperatures around places like Majorca exceeded 30C earlier this month, far above average. [...]
Experts are divided if the drop over really means China has reached the peak of its emissions. [...]
Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon. [...]
MethaneSat was meant to keep track of potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production. [...]
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide. [...]
We take a look at river, reservoir and groundwater levels after a particularly dry few months. [...]
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. [...]
Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated meats could soon be sold in the UK too [...]
How a new atomic clock might be the way to tackle attacks on plane GPS systems [...]
With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient [...]
Climate activists may be going deeper underground. [...]
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other? [...]
Solutions to plastic waste from creating cleaner products to cleaning up ocean litter. [...]
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with meteorologist Sean Sublette. In recent days, multiple catastrophic flooding events have hit [...]
Groups submitting comments on the latest stage of the Line 5 oil pipeline project in Michigan argue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to complete adequate analyses of [...]
BESSEMER, Ala.—Developers of a proposed hyperscale data center may find themselves lacking a resource essential for the operation of what would be one of the largest such facilities in the [...]
Texas’ independent electric grid has transformed in recent years with the significant addition of wind, solar and battery storage facilities, and faces new risks as large load users like data [...]
A week after the Republican-led House sent its $4 trillion budget bill to President Donald Trump, California Rep. Mark DeSaulnier vowed to fight the most harmful provisions of what he [...]
In the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Texas last week, government officials from President Donald Trump to the governor of Texas to county representatives have sought to deflect blame [...]
A bill passed by the Illinois legislature could slow the growth of carbon sequestration proposals—and proposals, in particular, for projects located near an aquifer that is the sole source of [...]
This report is a partnership between Agência Pública and the Guardian. Read it in Portuguese here. Minaçu, a small city in inland Brazil and home to the only asbestos mine in the [...]
Long-term drought persists in Texas despite catastrophic flooding that hit parts of the state last week. The torrential rainfall, which killed at least 120 people, alleviated the dry spell in [...]
Nuclear power was one of the few zero-emissions electricity sources whose federal tax incentives remained mostly intact last week following President Donald Trump’s signing of a massive budget bill. Considering [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urged to ‘be proactive’England’s reservoirs are at their lowest levels for a decade, new data [...]
Farmers are seeking ways to fend off birds who are stirring up soil in flooded paddy fields in Ferrara provinceAn unusual bird is ravaging crops and infuriating farmers in north-eastern [...]
Ynys Môn (Anglesey): Their energy was breathtaking, their display thrilling – though this was also a purposeful signal of their fitnessEventide, and calm waters were slowly departing the warm sands [...]
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limitNearly all rivers, lakes and ponds in England [...]
Scientists say Perito Moreno, which for decades defied trend of glacial retreat, now rapidly losing massOne of the few stable glaciers in a warming world, Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz [...]
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.
For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc's power.Read more on E360 → [...]
Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have snapped up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of Islamabad-based Renewables First, says his country can [...]
Koalas, which spend most of their lives high up in eucalyptus trees, usually die while on the ground, often mauled by dogs or hit by cars. More striking, a new [...]
As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become increasingly vulnerable to landslides. In response, Ugandan farmers are planting native trees and changing the crops [...]
The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy sector, analyses show. The law rapidly phases out tax credits for wind, solar, and [...]
Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide, work it described as "groundbreaking." But when scientists tried to reproduce the results, they [...]
A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the city has replaced its lead pipes, as ordered by a federal court.Read more on E360 → [...]
Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram networks entirely on renewable energy.Read more on E360 → [...]
The Trump administration is outwardly hostile to clean energy sourced from solar and wind. But thanks to close ties to the fossil fuel industry and new technological breakthroughs, U.S. geothermal [...]
Inside Climate News
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with meteorologist Sean Sublette. In recent days, multiple catastrophic flooding events have hit [...]
Groups submitting comments on the latest stage of the Line 5 oil pipeline project in Michigan argue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to complete adequate analyses of [...]
BESSEMER, Ala.—Developers of a proposed hyperscale data center may find themselves lacking a resource essential for the operation of what would be one of the largest such facilities in the [...]
Texas’ independent electric grid has transformed in recent years with the significant addition of wind, solar and battery storage facilities, and faces new risks as large load users like data [...]
A week after the Republican-led House sent its $4 trillion budget bill to President Donald Trump, California Rep. Mark DeSaulnier vowed to fight the most harmful provisions of what he [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09311-5Author Correction: Adhesive anti-fibrotic interfaces on diverse organs [...]
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02195-5Vianet Djenguet joins us to talk about working with conservation researchers in the documentary series The Wild Ones. [...]
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02108-6NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using its onboard camera. [...]
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02183-9These sophisticated models will be used for human-development studies and drug testing. [...]
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02172-ySome studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers. [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09356-6Author Correction: Genome-wide CRISPR screen in human T cells reveals regulators of FOXP3 [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09305-3Extreme river flood exposes latent erosion risk [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09366-4Author Correction: Spatial immune scoring system predicts hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02173-xIn animals, the drug reduced the effects of the virus, which currently has no treatment. [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02140-6Country-wide cuts are difficult to determine, but a survey by the National Postdoctoral Association reveals mounting pressures. [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02171-zCommittee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies. [...]
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02177-7SciArena uses votes by researchers to evaluate large language models’ responses on technical topics. [...]
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
As the demand for butterflies, spiders, ants and other terrestrial invertebrates grows worldwide, researchers in a recent study say better policy and regulation coverage can help ensure sustainability. The researchers [...]
China is rapidly scaling up its solar and wind energy infrastructure, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all utility-scale projects currently under construction worldwide, according to a new report from the [...]
On Dec. 20, 2024, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights publicly announced a landmark decision against the Colombian government and found it responsible for multiple human rights violations against the [...]
The Chilean government has recently approved a new port project in Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic Region, an area that recently attracted a lot of attention due to its enormous [...]
KAFUE, Zambia — “Three cattle on the left, 20 elephants on the right,” shouts the expedition leader from the bow seat of the first of five canoes snaking along a [...]
Grist
Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains. [...]
The city's climate goals include cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. [...]
Fireflies are vulnerable to climate change and habitat loss. Some simple landscaping tricks and turning off porch lights can make a big difference. [...]
A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone. [...]
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank. [...]
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… [...]