Developing Coronavirus Vaccines Are Harming Shark Species

As vaccines candidates are being developed to cure coronavirus, some developers use squalene - an ingredient found in shark liver oil. Wildlife experts fear that millions of sharks may be killed if vaccine developers don't look for alternative sources.

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Fox Hunting and What You Can Do to Help Stop It

From autumn until mid spring, the chilling sounds of hunting hounds in pursuit of foxes can still be heard all over the UK countryside. Fox hunts are responsible for some of the most heartbreaking acts of animal cruelty imaginable. Thankfully, there are groups of dedicated people who descend on the countryside to disrupt the hunters and level the playing field for the wildlife.

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France to ban use of wild animals in circuses, marine parks

France’s environment minister has announced a gradual ban in the coming years on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks

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New Trump administration rule may strip pollution protections from popular lakes, environmental activists say

Nearly 50 years ago, a power company received permission from North Carolina to build a reservoir by damming a creek near the coastal city of Wilmington. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to cool hot water from an adjacent coal-fired plant.

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Half a million sharks 'may be killed in effort to make Covid vaccine'

Around half a million sharks may be slaughtered in an effort to make a Covid-19 vaccine, wildlife experts have claimed. The top predators are harvested for squalene, a natural oil made in the liver of sharks, which is used medicine - including in current flu jabs.

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Are sharks being attacked by killer whales off Cape Town's coast?

The False Bay ocean food chain in Cape Town began to change significantly in 2015 with the appearance of shark-eating killer whales.

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BBC One - Breakfast, "We've overrun the planet" - Sir David Attenborough speaks in an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast

David Attenborough's new book A Life On Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future is out on October 1st.

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Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis

Humans did not always see themselves as he separate from the natural world. If we are to reverse its decline, we must re-entangle ourselves with it.

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Crows possess higher intelligence long thought primarily human - STAT

A second study looked in unprecedented detail at the brains of pigeons and barn owls, finding hints to the basis of their intelligence.

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Air pollution: 30 million in China died from polluted air in 17 years - study

TENS of millions of people in China died as a consequence of air pollution in a matter of years, a new study has revealed.

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A New Mass Extinction Event Has Been Discovered, And It Triggered The Rise of Dinosaurs

Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming.

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How Charlie Massy turned his ravaged property into an oasis — and how other farmers can do it too

For five generations, Charles Massy's family rode on the sheep's back and nearly destroyed their land in the process. But going back to nature changed his property and turbocharged a "revolution".

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Self-powered wildfire detector could help prevent deadly blazes

Prototype has not been tested in field, but could be cheaper and easier than current approaches

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Trump moves to open Tongass National Forest for logging, to environmentalists' dismay

During his first term, President Trump has rolled back or weakened more than 100 environmental regulations. On Friday, his administration moved to open up the country’s largest national forest for development. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has been called “America’s Amazon,” and it absorbs about 8 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Amna Nawaz talks to The New York Times’ Coral Davenport.

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As fossil fuel jobs falter, renewables come to the rescue

In 2011, Don Williams made the long trip from Michigan to North Dakota hoping to capitalize on the Bakken oil boom — to, as he says, "chase oil and make quick cash." It paid off; for years Williams worked in operations on the oil fields, watching over production and maintaining pump jacks. To say that Williams worked hard would be an understatement. Putting in 12-hour days, 7 days a week — 84-hour work-weeks were typical. And the work was lucrative. The money flowed as fast as the oil did — until it didn't. In May, Williams was laid off, along with most of the Bakken workforce, when boom went bust.

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California passes first-in-nation plastics recycling law

In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.

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Can solar power save rural America?

The sun is shining in Pennsylvania and Ohio. At least, solar developers hope so. They’re flocking to the two states, seeking out land leases and pitching projects that would put more renewable energy onto the grid. Solar development is touted as a win all around. It’s not extractive. It’s renewable. It allows farmers and landowners new opportunities to make money from their properties.

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How did wind power just become America's biggest renewable energy?

In 2019, the United States generated about 4.1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity. According to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, here’s a rough breakdown as to where all that power came from: Sixty-three percent is still generated by fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas and petroleum, while 20 percent is generated by nuclear power plants. Eighteen percent is now generated by renewable resources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric power from dams and other water-generated power plants.

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Climate change may prompt a new mass American migration, a move that could leave behind vulnerable groups and widen the wealth gap across the country

August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air conditioning broke the state's electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by the dim light of their cellphones. By mid-month, the state had recorded possibly the hottest temperature ever measured on earth — 130 degrees in Death Valley — and an otherworldly storm of lightning had cracked open the sky. From Santa Cruz to Lake Tahoe, thousands of bolts of electricity exploded down onto withered grasslands and forests...

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World's youth rallies against climate change

United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied worldwide on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their first global protest since the coronavirus crisis began.

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California's Joshua tree to become first to win protections because of climate change

In a historic vote, the picturesque Joshua tree will be considered for protection under the California Endangered Species Act due to climate change and habitat destruction threatening the flora’s population.

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I lived the climate crisis every day of my childhood. This November, I'll vote on it

My teacher first taught me about global warming in the third grade. She explained how an increase in greenhouse gases increased the amount of heat that could be trapped in our atmosphere. We discussed how climate change is melting the ice caps polar bears call home, leading to their extinction. We didn’t discuss how the climate crisis was already at our homes.

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California moves to end sales of new gas-powered cars

California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas

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China pledges to become carbon neutral by 2060

China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced Tuesday it would seek to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. It’s a notable pledge from a nation frequently targeted by Republicans, who argue the U.S. should not move ahead on more ambitious climate action without stronger commitments from other major emitters.

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China calls for 'green revolution' as Trump goes solo on climate

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to boost his country's Paris climate accord target on Tuesday and called for a green revolution, just minutes after U.S. President Donald Trump blasted China for "rampant pollution."

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EU's farm animals 'produce more emissions than cars and vans combined'

Greenpeace says bloc must get a grip on reducing greenhouse gases from livestock or risk missing Paris agreement targets

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HP's first Intel 11th-gen laptops use recycled ocean-bound plastics

HP's latest 13-, 14- and 15-inch Pavilion clamshell laptops are the company’s first to use post-consumer-recycled and “ocean-bound” plastics.

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Over 330 elephants suddenly collapsed and died. Scientists now have an explanation.

The mystery surrounding hundreds of sudden elephant deaths in Botswana seems to have been solved and the findings bring an end to months of speculation.

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Trump: Making America polluted again

Trump’s actions not only make America dirtier and Americans less healthy, they also hurt the economy and future generations.

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We are failing to save the planet’s species, finds UN report

As the planet plunges headlong into its sixth mass extinction, caused by humans, biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate. Global targets to slow this alarming trend have not been reached, according to a U. N. report.

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NASA Found Another Way Into Nuclear Fusion

NASA has unlocked nuclear fusion on a tiny scale, with a phenomenon called lattice confinement fusion that takes place in the narrow channels between atoms.

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New Zealanders rank climate change above Covid this election

Guardian readers place concern about the environment far above the coronavirus pandemic, which has dominated headlines in 2020. One month out from New Zealand’s general election and the major parties are on the campaign trail, donning high-vis jackets and face masks to visit factories, small businesses and schools around the country.

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Europe’s ancient forests ‘in perilous state’, scientists warn

Rare woodlands are vital stores of biodiversity but are under threat of being lost entirely

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Amazon Tries to Make the Climate Its Prime Directive

The company just gave itself two decades to reach zero emissions. Can it put both customers and the climate first? The vast Illinois factory floor that will produce electric delivery vans for Amazon.com Inc. is starting to fill up. Battery and chassis assembly here. Tire storage there. A titanic, three-story metal press.

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World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, according to new research. Carbon dioxide emissions rose by 60% over the 25-year period, but the increase in emissions from the richest 1% was three times greater than the increase in emissions from the poorest half.

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Original New Guinea Singing Dogs Still Exist in the Wild, Study Shows

The founding population of the New Guinea singing dog, a small-to-medium-sized canid thought to be extinct in the wild since the 1970s, is not, in fact, extinct, according to an analysis of the nuclear genomes from a dog population discovered during a recent expedition to the New Guinea highlands.

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Egypt tomb: Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.

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Fruits and Vegetables Dogs Can and Can't Eat

Eating Table scrape and other ways of eating fruits and vegetables is a common habit in Cannes. We all know that dogs are carnivores. But sometime they would like to eat fruits and vegetables in their meals. Fruits and Vegetables Dogs Can and Can’t Eat is a major issue for dogs Owners.

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Mapping the 1.6 billion people who live near forests

Global maps of places where people and forests coexist show that an estimated 1.6 billion people live within 5 kilometers of a forest. The assessment, based on data from 2000 and 2012 and published September 18 in the journal One Earth, showed that of these 1.6 billion "forest-proximate people," 64.5 percent were located in tropical countries, and 71.3 percent lived in countries classified as low or middle income by the World Bank.

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The Trump EPA Deals Another Blow to the Environment

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- To help some of the country’s dirtiest electric-power plants save a little money, the Environmental Protection Agency is willing to imperil the lives and health of Americans who live downstream from them. A new rule that relaxes restrictions on ash pollution is the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to sustain coal power in the face of crushing competition from renewables. And like the others, it’s sure to prove ineffective, wasteful and hugely damaging to the environment.

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Global plastic waste on course to increase six-fold by 2030

Despite numerous global commitments to address the vast amounts of plastic impacting environments around the world, growth in plastic waste is still outpacing reduction efforts, and even if governments stuck to existing guidelines, annual plastic emissions are on course to increase more than six-fold by 2030, according to a new study.

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The alien invaders threatening Scotland's wildlife

Invasive species are killing wildlife and damaging habitats - and experts warn that more threats are on the horizon.

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This is what it's like to walk into a building filled with a billion cockroaches

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the key to more sustainable farming and reducing landfill.

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Khao Yai National Park Got Tired of Tourists Not Tossing Their Trash... So They're Mailing it Back!

Thailand’s natural resources and environment minister shared a new way of dealing with tourists who leave behind their trash: mailing it back to them. On his Facebook page, Varawut Silpa-archa posted a photo of a box of trash left at a national park that appeared ready to be mailed back to its original owners along with a note that said, “You forgot something at Khao Yai National Park.”

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They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.

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Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World’s Wildlife in 50 Years

Two major reports released this month paint a grim portrait of the future for our planet’s wildlife. First, the Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), published last week, found that in half a century, human activity has decimated global wildlife populations by an average of 68 percent.

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Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here's why

This celebrated research gives governments a reason to give climate change a low priority, but is based on spurious empirical data.

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The ozone layer is on track to completely repair itself in our lifetime

The world's ozone layer is on track to be completely healed by the 2060s, according to modelling by the UN's environmental agency (UNEP). In the past 19-years, parts of the ozone layer have recovered at a rate of one to three per cent every ten years, UNEP has found. If this continues, the Northern Hemisphere's ozone layer is set to heal completely by the 2030s, the Southern Hemisphere by the 2050s, and the polar regions in the following decade.

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Volcanic ‘rock raft’ that could help revitalize Great Barrier Reef reaches Australia

A volcanic stone raft has finally crashed into Australia’s coast after an underwater volcano created it last year. The pumice stone raft was bigger than Paris when floating in the ocean and i…

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'He was in agony': How the Australian stinging tree hurts — and keeps on hurting

Australia's rainforest-dwelling stinging trees are notoriously painful, and Queensland researchers say they now know why.

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