This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a Volcano

While drones allow photographers to get very close to erupting volcanoes, it's not without risk: the drones don't always emerge unscathed.

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It’s rarer than gold and critical for green energy — and it’s about to be mined in Utah

One of the least common elements on Earth will soon be recovered at Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine in the Salt Lake Valley through the copper smelting process. Tellurium’s main use is in the manufacturing of solar panels.

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University of Birmingham builds UK's first recycling plant for high-performance rare earth magnets

The UK’s first re-manufacturing line for high-performance sintered rare earth magnets for use in electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy technologies and low carbon technologies will be developed by the University of Birmingham.

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World's First Plant to Recycle All Forms of Plastic Begins Construction

There is no doubt about it. We have a plastic problem. According to Plastics Europe, 350m tonnes of plastic is produced annually, and only 9% of that plastic is ever recycled. This plastic pollutes our oceans and shows up everywhere as microplastics. More alarmingly, according to the World Economic Forum, this problem is predicted to increase tenfold by 2025 if solutions aren’t found.

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A Dog Who Kept Sneaking into a Dollar General for a Unicorn Toy Gets His Plush and a New Start

The animal control officer who moved Sisu from the Dollar General store to the shelter bought the stray dog his unicorn toy before bringing the canine in.

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Largest U.S. oil and gas trade group backs carbon price

The industry group representing oil and gas companies including Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp said on Thursday it supports a carbon price as one measure to mitigate climate change risk.

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Boy finds 480 million-year-old fossil in garden using set he got for Christmas

A six-year-old boy has found a fossil up to 488 million years old while digging in his garden with a fossil-hunting set he received for Christmas. Siddak Sing Jhamat, known as Sid, had been digging in his garden in Walsall, in the West Midlands, "for worms and things like pottery and bricks", he said.

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Octopuses may be able to dream and change colour when sleeping

Octopuses cycle between quiet and active phases of sleep, similar to reptiles and birds, and may experience dreams during the active parts

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What You Need To Know About The New Mass. Climate Law

Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sweeping climate bill into law on Friday, signaling a new era in Massachusetts’ plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, build a greener economy and prioritize equity and environmental justice.

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Scientists Are Sizzling Sausages On The Lava From Iceland's Erupting Volcano

Science can be hungry work, and when you’ve spent the day sciencing next to an incredibly hot heap of lava only a fool would turn down the opportunity to cook up some sausages. The sizzle-fest kicked off on Sunday on Geldingadalir, a volcano close to Reykjavik, Iceland, which recently erupted with glorious enthusiasm.

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Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world

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Endangered condors return to northern California skies after nearly a century

After a century of absence, the endangered California condor is set to return to the skies of the Pacific north-west. The condor once soared from British Columbia to Mexico, but habitat loss, overhunting and, most significantly, poisoning from hunting ammunition drove the birds to near extinction.

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The Amazon Rainforest Now Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It Absorbs

Climate change and deforestation have transformed the ecosystem into a net source of planet-warming gases instead of a carbon sink

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The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn’t telling you about

Top strategies to combat climate change contain a surprise

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WCS Releases Archive of Stunning, Forgotten Historical Wildlife Illustrations

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released to the public a digital collection of some 2,200 forgotten, historical scientific wildlife illustrations from its Department of Tropical Research (DTR), which it ran from 1916 to 1965.

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Charlie Baker to sign sweeping climate change bill

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday that he plans to sign a sweeping climate change bill, ending months of shuttling the legislation back and forth between the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor. Asked at the end of an unrelated press conference whether he was planning to sign the bill, Baker replied “yes” without additional comment.

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Farming fish in fresh water is more affordable and sustainable than in the ocean

Aquaculture is a growing source of healthy protein for millions of people around the world, but there are big differences between farming fish on land and at sea.

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U.S. needs solar geoengineering research program, National Academies says

An influential panel of scientists has recommended the United States pursue a robust research program into solar geoengineering, a suite of techniques that can reflect sunlight and might forestall—temporarily—some of the worst effects of global warming. Such a U.S. program, if supported by the Biden administration, could total $200 million over 5 years, suggests a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

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A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop

Mutations in a gene typically found throughout the nervous system rob rabbits of their ability to hop. Instead, the animals walk on their front paws.

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Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the woo

Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis suggests. Experts have identified the species of animals used for British legal documents dating from the 13th to 20th century, and have discovered they were almost always written on sheepskin, rather than goatskin or calfskin vellum.

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The US military is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals

The Department of Defense has ordered the burning of 20m pounds of AFFF – despite risks to human health

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Why a dazed deer in Tennessee had hair growing from its eyeballs

A whitetail deer was found stumbling through the streets of Farragut, Tennessee, with thick hair growing out of both of its eyeballs. The hair protruded from discs of flesh covering both the buck's cornea — the transparent part of the eye that covers the iris and pupil. The bizarre condition, called corneal dermoids, has been documented in just one other whitetail in the state of Tennessee, according to Quality Whitetails magazine, the journal of the National Deer Association.

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Are Plastics and Pesticides Responsible for Declining Sperm Counts?

A Q+A with Shanna Swan on the alarming rise in human reproductive problems.

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AI controlled vertical farm could solve land crisis

AI-controlled vertical farm produces 400 times more food per acre than a flat farm, National Geographic recently predicted that by 2050, there would be more than two billion additional mouths to feed By 2050.

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Itching to discover a new species? Follow this map

Ecologists involved in mapping all life on Earth have now taken the next step: predicting where the life we don’t know about is waiting to be discovered. As a first pass, they have created an interactive map showing diversity hot spots with the richest potential for new mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian species. They describe their results today in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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Sweden to increase airport fees for high-polluting planes

Climate impact, such as use of biofuels, to be taken into account when calculating charges, says government

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Lettuce grows just fine in solar-panel greenhouses

The findings demonstrate the feasibility of using see-through solar panels in greenhouses to generate electricity. “We were a little surprised—there was no real reduction in plant growth or health,” says Heike Sederoff, a professor of plant biology at North Carolina State University and co-corresponding author of the study in Cell Reports Physical Science. “It means the idea of integrating transparent solar cells into greenhouses can be done.”

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Climate fight 'is undermined by social media's toxic reports'

Fake news on social media about climate change and biodiversity loss is having a worrying impact in the battle to halt the growing environmental threats to the planet, a group of scientists and analysts have warned.

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Goat that led police on chase through Las Vegas adopted

A goat that led police on a chase near downtown Las Vegas has been adopted and is now headed to a new permanent home, animal rescuers said. The 1-year-old goat, dubbed Buzi, led police and animal control officers on a chase for more than an hour Saturday in a neighborhood near the city's downtown.

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Rare birds in Australia have forgotten how to sing their own song

Without elder instructors of their own kind, young regent honeyeaters are adapting the songs of other species.

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Archaeologists Uncover a 1,300-Year-Old Skeleton of a Maya Diplomat

The remains revealed that the government official was wealthy as an adult, but he had a difficult childhood

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'Climate facts are back': EPA brings science back to website after Trump purge

Canceled four years ago by a president who considered global warming a hoax, climate crisis information has returned to the website of the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Joe Biden’s promise to “bring science back”.

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Global warming could cut over 60 countries' credit ratings by 2030, study warns

A new algorithm-based study by a group of UK universities has predicted that 63 countries – roughly half the number rated by the likes of S&P Global, Moody's and Fitch - could see their credit ratings cut because of climate change by 2030.

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How Much Energy Will the World Need?

Consider a simple thought experiment. Imagine that by the end of this century, everyone in the world will use energy at the same rate per person that a typical American does today: a steady stream of 9.5 kilowatts (kW), averaged over the year. That’s roughly the power consumed by 18 electric-stove burners running nonstop on high, all day, every day.

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Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity

The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in.

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Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds

Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report

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A Maya ambassador’s grave reveals his surprisingly difficult life

The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.

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Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal

The oil industry knew at least 50 years ago that air pollution from burning fossil fuels posed serious risks to human health, only to spend decades aggressively lobbying against clean air regulations, a trove of internal documents seen by the Guardian reveal.

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Australian aphrodisiac honey creates a buzz in the Middle East

A boutique blend of honey from Australia becomes sought after as an aphrodisiac in the Middle East.

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Researchers have grown 'human embryos' from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?

Two research groups have turned human skin cells into structures resembling an early-stage human embryo, paving the way for exciting new research avenues, and opening up some tricky ethical questions.

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Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information

Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour

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Behind New Zealand's '100% pure' image lies a toxic truth

New Zealand's dramatic and pristine landscape has been a magnet for tourists and Hollywood directors. But the country is facing a growing pollution crisis.

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Scientists want to store DNA of 6.7 million species on the moon, just in case

A "lunar ark" hidden inside the moon's lava tubes could preserve the sperm, eggs and seeds of millions of Earth's species, a group of scientists has proposed. The ark, or gene bank, would be safely hidden in these hollowed-out tunnels and caves sculpted by lava more than 3 billion years ago and would be powered by solar panels above.

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A forgotten Cold War experiment has revealed its icy secret. It’s bad news for the planet.

How a Cold War effort to conquer Greenland's ice revealed humanity's vulnerability to climate change.

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Maryland Senate passes measure to fight climate change

The measure increases greenhouse gas reduction goals from 40% of 2006 levels to 60% by 2030.

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Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says

Archaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens

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Germany pledges to work towards nuclear-free EU on Fukushima anniversary

10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear energy in other countries. Environment minister Svenja Schulze said, it was a "myth" that the technology could help to find a way out of the climate crisis and stressed that investments should go into the further development of renewable energies instead.

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The wonder material we all need but is running out

Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world's rubber trees. Can a solution be found before it's too late?

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Teenage Activists Post Signs to Warn of Toxic Air in London Neighborhoods

A group of teenagers, living in some of London's most polluted communities, are posting roadsigns highlighting the disproportionate impact air pollution has on people of color. The campaign, organized by Choked Up, a group made up of self-described "Black & brown teens," has posted signs throughout the city which warn "breathing kills" and "pollution zone," The Guardian reported.

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France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study finds

Declassified documents suggest 90% of French Polynesians received significant exposure

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