Endangered Species Act Protections Stripped From Gray Wolves

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule today that removes protection from all gray wolves in the lower 48 states except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The Service made its decision despite the fact that wolves are still functionally extinct in the vast majority of their former range across the continental United States.

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Trump's environment agency seems to be at war with the environment, say ex-officials

Donald Trump’s environment agency “actually seems to have a war on the environment”, has been “utterly untenable”, and has brought about “deeply, deeply troubling times”, according to three administrators appointed under past presidents. Reflecting on Trump’s dozens of attacks on core environmental protections, a fourth put it another way: “[I’m] really god damned pissed off – and that’s being kind.”

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Scientists Are Freaking Out Over The First-Ever Footage of This Bizarre Squid

Ram's horn shells are small, delicate spiral structures beachcombers can commonly find throughout the world.

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These drones will plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion

We need to massively reforest the planet, in a very short period of time. Flash Forest’s drones can plant trees a lot faster than humans.

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Gray Wolves To Be Removed From Endangered Species List

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is removing federal protections for gray wolves in the contiguous U.S., saying the species' recovery is a success. Wildlife groups are promising to sue.

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Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated'

China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts. An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of carbon dioxide absorption by new forests has been underestimated.

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60 percent of voters support transitioning away from oil, poll says

A new poll shows 60 percent of registered voters support transitioning away from fossil fuels like oil, a policy supported by presidential candidate Joe Biden.

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Scientists discover 500 metre-tall skyscraper coral reef at Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Australian scientists have discovered a detached reef more than 500 metres high – taller than the Empire State Building – at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef. The “blade-like” vertical reef about 130km off Cape York, Australia’s north-eastern tip, was found during a 3D seabed mapping exercise conducted from a ship owned by the Californian non-profit Schmidt Ocean Institute.

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Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters

With the setting of the sun and the onset of polar darkness, the Arctic Ocean would normally be crusted with sea ice along the Siberian coast by now. But this year, the water is still open. I’ve watched the region’s transformations since the 1980s as an Arctic climate scientist and, since 2008, as director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. I can tell you, this is not normal. There’s so much more heat in the ocean now than there used to be that the pattern of autumn ice growth has been completely disrupted.

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New study links air pollution to 15 percent of COVID-19 deaths

Researchers say deaths linked to COVID-19 and air pollution represent ‘potentially avoidable, excess mortality’.

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Study: Air Pollution Contributes To 500,000 Newborn Deaths A Year

The culprit is air pollution — a problem around the globe, from homes where people cook using coal and wood to the smoky streets of San Francisco when wildfires were raging.

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'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find

Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered

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With Justice Barrett, a Tectonic Court Shift on the Environment

The accession of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court will cement a conservative majority that is likely to give polluting industries freer rein, limit the ability of citizens to sue, and call into question the very basis of the EPA to issue and enforce regulations.

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A Human Toddler and a Mammoth Crossed Paths in Ancient New Mexico

Fossilized footprints reveal the interactions of people and animals over 10,000 years ago in White Sands National Park.

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Monkeys May Have Self-Domesticated Just Like Humans Did, Study Suggests

Monkeys, much like humans, could be engaged in the process of self-domesticating themselves, altering the course of their own evolution and physiology through the way they behave with one another, new research suggests.

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Republicans want to open pristine Alaska wilderness to logging. This is a tragedy

Forests are the lungs of the Earth. Around the world, every minute of every day, trees perform magic. They inhale vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and exhale oxygen, the stuff of life. They keep things in balance. And no single forest does this better – contains more living plant life per area, or stores more carbon – than the 17m-acre Tongass national forest in coastal Alaska.

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A Horrible Place for an Oil Spill

In the last few days of 2018, as the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, lay cloaked in the long darkness of polar night, a shrimp trawler called the Northguider ran aground off the coast of one of the islands.

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Glitter is an environmental abomination. It's time to stop using it

Glitter is notorious for getting everywhere – touch one sparkly Christmas card and you’ll be finding flecks of the stuff in your food, hair and carpet for months. It’s so obnoxious some people even slather a mixture of it and Vaseline on political yard signs to punish thieves. But the real issue with glitter isn’t that it’s annoying – it’s that it truly does get everywhere: not just in your home, but also into the furthest-flung corners of the Earth.

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Workers vacuum murder hornets from first nest found in the US

Asian giant hornets are a major concern for farmers in North America, who fear important local bee populations will be devastated.

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Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers' Traps—A First

Just days after a snare had killed one of their own, four-year-old wild gorillas worked together to find and destroy other traps in their forest home.

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Washington state discovers first 'murder hornet' nest in US

Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees, officials said.

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Mourners Hold a Funeral for a Dead Oregon Glacier

On Sunday, the remains of Clark Glacier were wrapped in a black funeral shroud and laid out front of the Oregon Capitol. The glacier is officially dead, ice lost to the climate crisis.

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Scientists Found A New Way To Break Down the Most Common Plastic

The plastics industry produces over 88 million tons of polyethylene, the most common plastic in the world. Scientists have found a new way to upcycle it, according to a study published in Science. It could help deal with the growing plastic pollution crisis.

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China's running dry, and that could spell danger for the ruling Communist Party

China has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2060, responding to the need to drastically bring down its overwhelming share of global carbon emissions. Experts say it's also critical for the communist party's survival.

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Severe burn damage from California wildfires seen from space

New satellite imagery of California reveals not just the extent of its wildfire damage, but the depth of the loss.

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Tackling climate change seemed expensive. Then COVID happened.

Climate deniers and opponents of aggressive climate action have long argued that governments can’t afford comprehensive measures to confront the climate crisis. The Green New Deal, for example, has been ridiculed as a “crazy, expensive mess” by the Republican Policy Committee.

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Plastic Eating Bacteria - Reengineering for Efficiency

Scientists show how re-engineering enzymes from a plastic eating bacteria, can provide us new avenues in plastic degradation.

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75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer

"I want crystal clean water and air." That's what Donald Trump said in the first chaotic presidential debate with Joe Biden. But there is scant evidence of that desire in the actions of his administration, which has spent nearly four years systematically dismantling core environmental protections, some of which stretch back decades.

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This Molten Salt Reactor Is the Next Big Thing in Nuclear

A new molten salt reactor design can scale from just 50 Megawatts electric (MWe) to 1,200 MWe, its creators say, while burning up nuclear waste in the process. You like nuclear. So do we. Let's nerd out over nuclear together. Energy Daily founder Llewellyn King suggests the large reactor represents a move of public sentiment after public obstacles have continued to push the timeline on popular tiny reactor startup NuScale.

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Photograph of a Leopard With a Black Panther Shadow Is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Shot

Photographer Mithun H camped out for six straight days to capture this stunning image

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From Disease to Bushfires, Australia's iconic Koalas Face Bleak Future

At work, Morgan Philpott (pictured below) cares for sick children. In his off-hours the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless group: unwell koalas.

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How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert

Amid the success of the Serapium Forest, a massive plantation in Egypt, the country is now looking to plant more desert lands with trees as part of plans to fight climate change.

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Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

The 37m feline figure, said to have been created some 2,000 years ago, escaped notice for centuries.

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Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru

Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site

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Let’s end disposable plastic containers in Canada

Plastic can be useful. Disposable plastic is almost always wasteful. Canadians, it’s your turn to make a difference and put an end to disposable, single-use plastics in Canada.The government of

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An iPhone 12 with USB-C would really help the environment — not a missing charger

During last week’s Apple’s iPhone 12 event, the Cupertino-based company was proud to tout its environmental initiatives. Its offices, data centers and stores currently run on 100% renewable energy and the company is aiming for net zero “climate impact” by 2030.

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Boy, 12, discovers rare dinosaur skeleton

He was hiking with his father in Alberta, Canada, when he stumbled upon the Hadrosaur remains.

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Elon Musk Says the Sun Can Power All of Civilization. Of Course He's Right.

In a tweet yesterday, Elon Musk suggested we could all pay a little more tribute to the powerful orb that keeps our planet alive. Musk said the sun—that “free fusion reactor in the sky”—can power all of civilization. Solar energy runs through many of Musk’s long-term plans, and as the cost of solar technology falls, the SpaceX/Tesla/Boring Company head honcho will likely invest even more—sending a powerful message to other business and community leaders around the world.

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Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel

With its five, massive, solid sails, this ship will carry 7,000 cars across the Atlantic, while being almost emission-free.

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The Ocean is way deeper than you think

Let's start with a sense of scale. This dot right here is the size of an average human. This slightly larger dot is the size of an elephant. And this is the size of the largest ship ever built, the Knock Nevis. With that in mind, let's start going underwater and see what we find out. The first milestone is at 40 meters below the surface, which is the maximum depth allowed for recreational scuba diving.

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Chicken, The Best Pet Dinosaur?

This is a delightful video and those who have chickens will especially enjoy it.

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Japan to release 1m tonnes of contaminated Fukushima water into the sea – reports

Local media say release could begin in 2022 and would take decades to complete, but local fishermen say move will destroy their industry

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How Venus flytraps store short-term ‘memories’ of prey

Glowing Venus flytraps reveal how calcium buildup in the cells of leaves acts as a short-term “memory” that helps the plants identify prey.

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The World's Worst Oil Related Disaster You've Never Heard Of

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on by oil extraction and production. After a visit to Ecuador in 1993, human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and other attorneys brought a class-action lawsuit against Texaco (later Chevron) on behalf of over 30,000 farmers and Indigenous people from this Amazon region who were affected by this disaster. Through his personal testimony and supporting footage, Steven recounts his experience advocating on behalf of the environment and affected communities and the personal toll this work has had on his life.

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The great unravelling: 'I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse' | Joelle Gergis

If you’ve ever been around someone who is dying, it may have struck you how strong a person’s lifeforce really is. When my dad was gravely ill, an invisible point of no return was gradually crossed, then suddenly death was in plain sight. We stood back helplessly, knowing that nothing more could be done, that something vital had slipped away. All we could do is watch as life extinguished itself in agonising fits and starts.

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EU eying carbon border fees plan for steel, cement and power: senior official

The European Union's plan to impose carbon border fees on polluting imported goods would initially apply to steel, cement and electricity, but could expand to more sectors later, a senior official said on Tuesday.

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'Crazy' sea turtle mating marathon underway on Great Barrier Reef

Hundreds of sea turtles are gathering off the coast of Bundaberg for a frenzied annual breeding season involving hooks, multiple partners, the threat of sharks and the odd case of mistaken identity.

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Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining

Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by the Philippine government for protesting them. A VICE World News investigation.

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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. The 464-page outlook, published today by the IEA, also outlines the “extraordinarily turbulent” impact of coronavirus and the “highly uncertain” future of global energy use over the next two decades.

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‘Murder Hornets’ invading U.S. will soon enter their ‘slaughter phase’

The Washington State Department of Agriculture wants to find their nest before they enter this destructive phase.

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