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The White House announces a "national energy emergency" to reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas. [...]
Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets. [...]
A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash. [...]
Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by. [...]
Frogs, lizards, snakes and insect pests are being transported across the world on ornamental plants. [...]
Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, has completed her first spacewalk since arriving. [...]
India is only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China. [...]
The UK led the way in this field of science until recently - but now other countries have overtaken. So, how can that lead be recovered? [...]
Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year. [...]
After edging close to extinction, there are now some 2,000 Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal. [...]
The Northern Territory is home to over 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, but not everyone wants them there. [...]
Campaigners, politicians and zoo managers disagree on where Wikie and her son Keijo should be sent. [...]
Financial problems at battery maker Northvolt have shaken hopes for Sweden's green industry sector. [...]
Climate change caused 41 additional days of dangerous heat and extreme weather, say scientists. [...]
LA is trying to expand its cycling network ahead of the 2028 Olympics, but some are skeptical. [...]
A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators. [...]
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn. [...]
Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns. [...]
The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target. [...]
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. [...]
Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it. [...]
A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked. [...]
As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit. [...]
Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust. [...]
A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up? [...]
Across the country, people fighting climate change and pushing for cleaner energy systems are facing a bleak new reality. President Donald Trump has upended their work with executive orders he [...]
The latest United States withdrawal from international efforts to slow global warming feels old hat to many long-time policy experts, who say that while the move will make global climate [...]
Soon after he was sworn in to his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump issued more than two dozen executive orders that touch on nearly every facet of U.S. [...]
As fires spread with alarming speed through the Pacific Palisades region of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 7, a local TV news crew recorded a mountain lion trailed by two young [...]
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—On issues of climate change, the pope’s influence may stop at the Alabama border. Following an unprecedented, forcefully written call to action on climate change from Pope Francis [...]
The auto industry saw a slowdown in growth of U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2024, largely due to the longtime leader—Tesla—losing ground. How things go in 2025 will depend a [...]
Texas regulators have completed the first overhaul of oilfield waste rules in over 40 years. The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) last month adopted revisions for Chapters 3 and 4 [...]
After Colorado’s most costly wildfire, hundreds of residents in Louisville—one of the communities that burned—protested in front of city hall over building codes meant to make new homes more green [...]
In his four years in office, President Joe Biden dedicated more federal attention to climate action than any previous president, breaking a decades-long impasse, and worked to ensure vulnerable people [...]
Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive ordersThrough a flurry of executive orders, a newly inaugurated Donald Trump has [...]
Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policiesClimate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against [...]
Experts say UK should stop biomass burning as electricity sector decarbonisation by 2030 can be achieved without itThe UK should stop burning wood to generate power because it is not [...]
Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have [...]
António Guterres issues warning at Davos, days after Donald Trump pulled US out of Paris climate agreementDavos day two live – latest updatesThe world’s addiction to fossil fuels is 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.
As the northern latitudes warm, ice is melting and vegetation is growing more abundant. But instead of absorbing more carbon, the region is becoming a source of heat-trapping gas, a [...]
In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just beginning to focus on why some fish predators and [...]
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever before, putting hopes of limiting warming in jeopardy.Read more on E360 → [...]
Climate scientist Daniel Swain says that two very wet years followed by a very dry one helped to turn the Los Angeles wildfires into raging infernos. This phenomenon of “hydroclimate [...]
A new study finds that trees that have lived through many wet years struggle to cope with dry spells.Read more on E360 → [...]
A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed by villagers and herders. In many areas, locally-run conservancies now more effectively protect wildlife than national parks do, [...]
In a first, the U.S. saw wind and solar supply more power than coal last year, according to a new analysis. But even as renewables made gains, U.S. emissions stayed [...]
Wildfires in Southern California have burned tens of thousands of acres, destroyed thousands of buildings, and killed at least 10 people. Experts say global warming may have set the stage [...]
In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have stirred controversy. Now, scientists increasingly agree "de-extinction" is not possible, but breeding living animals with genes similar to those [...]
Inside Climate News
Across the country, people fighting climate change and pushing for cleaner energy systems are facing a bleak new reality. President Donald Trump has upended their work with executive orders he [...]
The latest United States withdrawal from international efforts to slow global warming feels old hat to many long-time policy experts, who say that while the move will make global climate [...]
Soon after he was sworn in to his second term as U.S. president, Donald Trump issued more than two dozen executive orders that touch on nearly every facet of U.S. [...]
As fires spread with alarming speed through the Pacific Palisades region of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 7, a local TV news crew recorded a mountain lion trailed by two young [...]
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—On issues of climate change, the pope’s influence may stop at the Alabama border. Following an unprecedented, forcefully written call to action on climate change from Pope Francis [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00131-1First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosystems. [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08253-8Approaches for the development of future at-scale neuromorphic systems based on principles of biointelligence are described, along with potential applications of scalable neuromorphic architectures [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08470-1New topological states have been observed in rhombohedral graphene/hBN moiré superlattices, including fractional and extended quantum anomalous Hall effects, at ultra-low temperatures, demonstrating the [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08454-1Cryo-electron microscopy structures of native type A GABA receptors from human brain reveal diverse subunit compositions, protein binding partners and binding sites for antiepileptic [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08468-9Using multi-ancestry genome-wide association study and fine-mapping, 298 loci and 36 credible genes are identified in the aetiology of bipolar disorder. [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08459-wDopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area have a role in modulating aggression in adult male mice, and this effect of dopamine depends strongly [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08381-1We report superconductivity, in a limited region of displacement field and density, in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2 with a maximum critical temperature of 426 mK, establishing [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08466-xProfiling of the location and transcriptome of tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell formation at single-transcript resolution finds regionalized signalling as the basis of immune [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08402-zWhistler-mode chorus waves have been observed in the tail region of the terrestrial magnetosphere, where the magnetic field is not dipolar so that chorus [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08322-yUsing whole-Earth oscillations to constrain a 3D global model of attenuation for the whole mantle, low attenuation correlates with low velocity in the lower [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08457-yThe maternal X chromosome in female mice impairs cognition through the silencing of certain genes and accelerates ageing of the hippocampus. [...]
Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08440-7RELMβ mediates a gut immune–epithelial circuit regulating tolerance to food antigens, offering targetable candidates for the prevention and treatment of food allergies. [...]
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
On Dec. 22, 2024, Turkish customs officers conducting a random search of a plane’s cargo hold found a surprise stowaway inside a small wooden crate with holes: a malnourished baby [...]
GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS — Marco Andres Vizcaino Garcia is probably the most qualified naturalist guide a person could hire during their visit to Galápagos National Park and its adjacent marine reserve. [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden staff. They were sending [...]
Shaken, not stirred: That’s how fictional secret service agent James Bond prefers his martini. And now there’s a lizard in the Caribbean that shares his name: the James Bond forest [...]
The southern states of the U.S. are facing a winter storm this week that will bring heavy snow and ice to a region that rarely experiences such conditions. More than [...]
Grist
New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions. [...]
From declaring a “national energy emergency” to exiting the Paris Agreement, here is everything climate-related Trump did on Day 1. [...]
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… [...]