Hawaii’s Push To Plant Millions Of Trees

Camilo Mora spends his evenings and weekends tinkering with PVC pipes, duct tape and zip ties, working like a modern-day MacGyver to create odd-looking inventions for his greenhouse.

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What makes a city great? A new way to look at urban data will give us clues.

Urban planning is more art than science. But data mining and visualization on a massive scale are set to change that.

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War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars

Europe’s manufacturers face $250m-a-year hit as rising demand drives up price

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New ways to report driving incidents on Google Maps

Today, we’re adding more tools that reflect real-time contributions from the community so you can stay even more informed and alert when you’re behind the wheel.

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Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life

Reef-building corals can make unexpected recoveries from climate change-induced destruction. It turns out that some corals only look dead when exposed to unusually warm water. Instead, the coral’s polyps shrink and retreat into their hard skeleton, making the reef appear dead, before recolonising the skeleton when conditions are better. It is a survival strategy never seen before in today’s corals – but it may not help the corals as the climate continues to change.

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Paris zoo unveils the 'blob' — a slime mould with 720 sexes which acts like an animal

Scientists are perplexed by the slime mould, which has no brain, mouth, stomach or eyes, yet is capable of learning, digesting food, has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself within two minutes if cut in half.

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Humpback whales use their flippers to swat salmon into their mouths

Humpback whales use their flippers to create a barrier that traps gathered prey, which they can then usher towards their mouths by swatting the water. Using aerial photography and filming, researchers were able to capture this foraging strategy for the first time.

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