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Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. [...]
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other? [...]
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target. [...]
A climbing pair shatter the record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains. [...]
Six women - including pop star Katy Perry - blasted off into space as part of an all-women suborbital mission [...]
The couple is suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species such as white tigers. [...]
The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg. [...]
Independent experts say three white wolf puppies are not dire wolves, as claimed by US company Colossal [...]
Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests? [...]
A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station. [...]
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads. [...]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods. [...]
The mission was supposed to last 10 days but less then a day after landing, the craft is running out of power. [...]
New part of the immune system - hidden inside our bodies - could be used to make new antibiotics. [...]
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. [...]
Peter Dutton is facing outrage after comments he made on climate change during an election debate. [...]
Could volcanic ash close down airspace across the UK and Europe bringing the widespread disruption we experienced in 2010. [...]
More clean electricity was generated in 2024 but there was a rise in the amount of coal and gas burnt too. [...]
India's weather department has issued a yellow alert for parts for northern India until Wednesday. [...]
The climate prize ceremony will come just before Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit in November. [...]
The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg. [...]
The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months. [...]
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London. [...]
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other? [...]
The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector [...]
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure". [...]
America’s 34th annual National Parks Week will feature dramatically scaled back staffing and services at national parks and forests following weeks of slashing by the Trump Administration. Friday, the day [...]
Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for what could be an Earth Day onslaught. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and [...]
The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes [...]
Research shows that parks are crucial for supporting city dwellers—people or the surprising abundance of animals that inhabit urban wildlands. However, designing parks with both in mind can be a [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding information from a small geoengineering startup company it says is launching pollution into the air. The EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation submitted [...]
The state of Florida is in violation of the Endangered Species Act and must develop a plan for addressing the pollution that led in recent years to an unprecedented die-off [...]
The buildout of renewable energy projects in downstate New York—the region that includes the Hudson Valley and below—is often complicated. The space for these projects is limited, particularly in New [...]
SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves. Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of the Shiloh Community in south Alabama, has led more politicians [...]
The Trump administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would rescind widespread habitat protections for species protected under the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law enacted in 1973 to conserve [...]
It’s a rough time to be in the automobile industry. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are punching holes in plans that took years to develop regarding global supply chains and managing [...]
The Guardian – Environment Section:
Offers comprehensive news and opinion pieces on climate change, wildlife, and environmental policies.
Weeks of fires amid warm and dry spell have decimated ecosystems and threatened endangered species, say expertsWildfires expose ‘postcode lottery’ of firefighting resourcesBritain’s national parks have warned of a “catastrophic” [...]
Scientists sound the alarm over substances such as arsenic and lead contaminating soils and entering food systemsAbout one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have [...]
In an exclusive extract from Friederike Otto’s new book, she says climate disasters result from inequality as well as fossil fuelMy research as a climate scientist is in attribution science. [...]
Online exhibition collects soundscapes from nature reserves and sites such as Machu Picchu and Taj MahalThe sounds of wind turbines, rare whales and the Amazonian dawn chorus are among the [...]
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.
The Shompen, residents of a small island in the Indian Ocean, are among the world's last isolated tribes. But that may soon change as the Indian government moves forward with [...]
The 12th annual Yale Environment 360 Film Contest is now accepting entries.Read more on E360 → [...]
Weather forecasts powered by artificial intelligence are usually more accurate — and require less computational energy and fewer human hours — than conventional predictions. But questions remain about A.I. systems’ [...]
China will allow the construction of new coal power plants through at least 2027 but with restrictions aimed at limiting emissions and boosting renewables, according to a newly released action [...]
The Trump administration has re-fired hundreds of probationary workers at NOAA after a court ruling cleared the way.Read more on E360 → [...]
Indigenous communities that rely on the natural flow of the Xingu River have long fought the Belo Monte dam in Brazil. With the dam now up for relicensing, they are [...]
The atmosphere is getting thirstier. A new study finds that warming is leading to more frequent bouts of hot, dry weather that cause soils to lose large volumes of water [...]
Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms are underpaying for carbon credits from African forests.Read more on E360 → [...]
One of the most endangered animals in the world, freshwater mussels are threatened by pollution, climate change, habitat loss, and invasive species. But in the epicenter of their diversity — [...]
Inside Climate News
America’s 34th annual National Parks Week will feature dramatically scaled back staffing and services at national parks and forests following weeks of slashing by the Trump Administration. Friday, the day [...]
Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for what could be an Earth Day onslaught. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and [...]
The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes [...]
Research shows that parks are crucial for supporting city dwellers—people or the surprising abundance of animals that inhabit urban wildlands. However, designing parks with both in mind can be a [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding information from a small geoengineering startup company it says is launching pollution into the air. The EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation submitted [...]
Nature News & Comment
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08977-1Author Correction: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01265-yFreshwater insects used ‘microplastic’ as a building material long before scientists coined the term. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01232-7Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01242-5Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01255-0Carbonate mineral is long-sought evidence of conditions that supported liquid water. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01263-0The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01014-1Conventional tests that look only at a small subset of genetic code often miss variations hiding outside the protein-coding genome. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01245-2Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01198-6Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01264-zBold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01191-zModels estimate the ginormous potential impact of foreign-aid cuts. [...]
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01234-5Understanding the playbook that those in power use to twist numbers, and how they make others complicit, is only becoming more important in the [...]
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 first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught [...]
The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that [...]
Torricelli Mountains, a tiny mountain range in northern Papua New Guinea, is estimated to host roughly 4% of the world’s known species, many found nowhere else on Earth, Mongabay’s John [...]
Siamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and the southernmost part of Thailand, their unforgettable and [...]
Brazil designated a refuge twice the size of Manhattan near the Amazonian city of Manaus in June 2024 to protect the pied tamarin, South America’s most endangered monkey. But almost [...]
Grist
The right to repair can reduce emissions and pollution. But for conservatives, it's "a freedom and liberty issue." [...]
Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks. [...]
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden. [...]
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… [...]