As Hawaii Aims for 100% Renewable Energy, Other States Watching Closely

How to incorporate solar and wind while keeping the electricity grid stable is a key question

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Griffon vulture by Martinus

He looks at you. You're not interesting. You live. -- 24 * 30 cm, acrylics on canvas -- For Sale

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Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids

A team of researchers in Germany has found evidence suggesting that the famous wooden Shirgir Idol is actually 11,500 years old. The team has documented their efforts and findings in a paper published on the Cambridge University Press site Antiquity.

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Government pledges $500 million to preserve Great Barrier Reef

The Turnbull government has confirmed it will be investing $500 million to help improve and protect the Great Barrier Reef. Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the pledge - announced on Sunday ahead of the May budget - was a game-changer and would help secure the reef's future. "This is the single largest investment in restoration and management in Australia's history," he told ABC News.

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‘Dead zone’ larger than Scotland found by underwater robots in Arabian sea

An underwater “dead zone” larger than the area of Scotland has been discovered by robots exploring the Arabian Sea.  Scientists say the situation is “worse than feared” after finding almost no oxygen in the Gulf of Oman, the strait that connects the Arabian Sea to the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. 

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Study: Health benefits will offset cost of China’s climate policy

A new MIT study reports that if China follows through with its international pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, every one of its provinces will experience benefits to air quality and human health, with associated monetary savings that could offset the total cost of implementing the climate policy. The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, estimates that by meeting its greenhouse gas-reduction goals, China would simultaneously improve its air quality, which would avoid a significant number of deaths due to air pollution...

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Farewell, No. 16: scientists left 'miserable' after world's oldest spider dies aged 43

The world’s oldest known spider has died at the age of 43, outliving its nearest rival by 15 years, Australian scientists have reported.

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How to start a zero waste lifestyle

Expert advice from zero waste gurus.

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Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest

More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could possibly have been the reason?

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Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals

Differences in the structure of the brain’s cerebellum may help explain our superior cognitive abilities

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Ancient human-sloth hunt hinted at in 15,000-year-old footprints

Find adds credence to the idea that people helped drive giant mammals to extinction

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Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected

Researchers are sounding the alarm after an analysis showed that buying a new smartphone consumes as much energy as using an existing phone for an entire decade.

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This Famous Aging Researcher Doesn’t Want Us to Live Forever

In the Netflix anime series Knights of Sidonia, humankind is marooned in a spaceship 500,000-strong, refugees constantly on the run from shapeshifting aliens who destroyed Earth over 1,000 years ago. Both the patriarchy and poverty have been smashed. Advances in genetic engineering have allowed androgynous individuals to proliferate and asexual reproduction to become commonplace. Everybody (except the protagonist, a clone of his grandfather) can photosynthesize, drastically reducing the need to eat.

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EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides

The world’s most widely used insecticides will be banned from all fields within six months, to protect both wild and honeybees that are vital to crop pollination

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20 Tips How To Protect Environment From Pollution [In Daily Life]

In today's world, business is both driven and disrupted by software. From startups to government organizations to publicly traded companies, software is developed at a record-setting pace to run almost everything. This continuous evolution of technology has drastically changed how enterprises operate today. As the race heats up among companies looking to be first-to-market with the next best product or service, considerations about the implications these systems and gadgets may have on society often are overlooked.

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This might be Scott Pruitt's most destructive move yet

Adopting a strategy successfully employed by the tobacco industry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a sweeping new regulation that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use in developing its regulations. The EPA administrator, who has come under fire from both parties for his personal conduct and ethical scandals, announced the changes at an EPA event Tuesday, where he was surrounded by conservative allies and pollution skeptics.

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Sea of solar panels turns Mexican desert green

From a distance, it looks like a deep-blue sea has formed in the middle of the Mexican desert. But this is no mirage. It's the largest solar park in Latin America. With 2.3 million solar panels covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the arid northern state of Coahuila, the Villanueva power plant is part of Mexico's push to generate 43 per cent of its electricity from clean sources by 2024.

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Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre

Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered startling evidence of a massacre more than 1500 years ago, when the inhabitants of a small village were struck down in their houses or as they fled along the street, and their bodies left to rot where they fell – with their treasures including beautiful jewellery and Roman gold coins. At Sandby Borg on the shore of Öland island, off the south-east coast of Sweden, there was no escape.

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Research gives new ray of hope for solar fuel

A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a clean, cheap and widely-available fuel.

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Watch: Buckingham Palace Transformed by Rainforest Projection

A rainforest design was projected on the facade of Buckingham Palace on Sunday as part of a global conservation initiative led by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Saving Florida's oysters could mean killing a way of life

Ward was born the year after his grandfather had the throat cancer surgery. T.J. never heard his natural voice. The seaman’s single clap would cut through the salt air on the docks of Apalachicola louder than words could. When he was a boy, T.J. didn’t draw dragons or superheroes. It was pictures of boats, netting and rigging just so. When he was 10, his grandfather named a boat after him. No one ever named a boat for you unless you were old or dead. But there it was: The Captain T.J.

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The Harrowing Floods of Bangladesh, in Photos

A rickshawala, with the help of his daughter, tried to cross a flooded road in Ramu. “I am documenting what’s around me not only as a photojournalist, but also as a victim,” Jashim Salam says. In Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he lives and works, rising water levels during monsoon season have left houses and places of business..

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Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, British Veterinary Association warns after ‘anti-vaxx’ movement spread to pets

Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets.

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Green prize goes to Flint water activist

The founder of a citizens' movement that helped expose the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is one of the recipients of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Nearly 100,000 residents of Flint were left without safe tap water after lead began leaching into the supply. Mother of four LeeAnne Walters led a citizens' movement that tested the tap water to expose the health threat.

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'Money talks': A $1.2 trillion fund manager is about to pull investment from companies that won't act on climate change

Legal and General, which oversees more than $1.2 trillion in assets, said it would punish companies with a bad record on climate change and strip them of their funding. Helena Morrissey, head of personal investing, said the firm will be “naming and shaming” companies that have failed to act on climate change next week, and pull investments from those companies. “There comes a time when talk is over, and it’s time to vote with our feet. Money talks as they say,” Morrissey said at a conference in London on Monday.

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Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model.

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What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like.

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Boy unearths lost treasure of 10th century Danish king

A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have helped to uncover a unique stash of lost treasure thought to be associated with the legendary Danish King "Harry Bluetooth," who brought Christianity to Denmark in the 10th century.

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Malaria infection creates a ‘human perfume’ that makes us more attractive to mosquitoes

The parasite that causes malaria can change the way you smell, making you more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a new study. The work may help explain why the disease is able to spread so effectively. The new study adds important details about how human odor is influenced by malaria, says Audrey Odom John, a parasitologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri who was not involved in the study. “This is very cool, and it’s been needed for some time.”

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Dear leaders: You've failed your children on climate change

Dear leaders, You failed us. It's your responsibility to protect the youth. But when faced with the choice of fossil fuel money for your campaigns, or the wellbeing of your children, you pick fossil fuels. Today is Earth Day. Please save your phony Earth Day tweets and Facebook posts, I don't want to see them. Put those in a bag along with your toothless "thoughts and prayers" tweets for hurricane victims and dump them in the ocean just like you permit corporations to dump their waste.

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World's First Underwater Residence to Open in the Maldives

Take it from the Little Mermaid: It's better down where it's wetter.

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Plastic taints most bottled water, study finds

Tiny plastic bits contaminate bottled water sold around the world, a new study finds. For now, scientists can only guess at the source of the plastic. Whether ingesting it might pose any risk also remains unknown. Researchers tested more than 250 bottles of water. They came from nine countries and were sold under 11 different brands. These included Nestle Pure Life, Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, San Pellegrino and Gerolsteiner. Plastic turned up in 93 out of every 100 of the bottles.

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One in eight birds is threatened with extinction, global study finds

One in eight bird species is threatened with global extinction, and once widespread creatures such as the puffin, snowy owl and turtle dove are plummeting towards oblivion, according to the definitive study of global bird populations. The State of the World’s Birds, a five-year compendium of population data from the best-studied group of animals on the planet, reveals a biodiversity crisis driven by the expansion and intensification of agriculture.

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No one knows what created these strange shapes in the Arctic

Bizarre circular shapes spotted by a research plane in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea are puzzling NASA scientists.

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Tesla’s fleet has driven 7.2 billion miles and its energy products produced 10.3 billion kWh

For earth day, Tesla released some interesting data about its fleet of electric vehicles and its energy products with a fun Lord of the Rings theme.

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A Dying 700-Year-Old Banyan Tree Was Brought Back to Life With an IV

It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.

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Tech firms like Google, Amazon push power companies toward solar and wind, a blow to coal

Every time you save a photo to the cloud, buy something on Amazon, open a Google doc or stream a movie, you’re probably pulling electricity from a windmill in Texas or a solar farm in Virginia. In fact, your clicks and taps may have helped build them. Since 2008, renewable energy has gone from 9% to 18% of the U.S. energy mix, according to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. A big part of that shift stems from tech companies' rapid buildout of cloud storage centers and a move to burnish their public image by vowing they’ll run these centers on sources like wind and solar.

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Grassland plants show surprising appetite for carbon dioxide

Results from a long-running field experiment suggest that a major group of plants could thrive as the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases.

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‘Earth’ in European languages

The English word "Earth", German "Erde", Swedish "jorden", and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic *erþō, which meant, well, "earth". They are shown in brown

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Rare brown bear dies in capture operation

A national park in central Italy is investigating the death of a rare brown bear during an operation to capture it. Biologists at the park in the Apennine mountains had trapped the animal to fit him with a radio collar so they could track his movements. But the male Marsican bear began to struggle to breathe as he was being sedated and died shortly afterwards, despite efforts to revive him.

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The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom

A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of paleontology

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This Contorted Mystery Squid May Be the 'Most Bizarre' Ever Seen

"There's a challenge for you — what is THAT?" Unusual deep-sea creatures seen for the first time can sometimes stump even a seasoned expert in marine biology. And in a recent video of an ocean dive in the Gulf of Mexico, an expert's off-camera exclamation revealed his surprised response to the appearance of a squid that had contorted itself into such a peculiar shape that it barely resembled a squid at all.

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Watch: Is this Mongoose Playing Dead or Just Playing?

These mongoose pups were wrestling when a hornbill appeared down the road.

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Kangaroo at China’s Fuzhou Zoo dies after visitors throw rocks at it to make it jump

A kangaroo has died in a Chinese zoo after people threw objects at it in an attempt to get it to hop. Visitors to Fuzhou Zoo in Fujian Province had been trying to get a response from kangaroos by throwing bricks and concrete chunks. A veterinary surgeon said the 12-year-old female marsupial died from a ruptured kidney after being hit. Separately, a five-year-old male suffered minor injuries from the projectiles that were intended to get the marsupials up on their hind legs...

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Deep in the Costa Rican rainforest

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These ants have evolved a complex system of battlefield triage and rescue

Ants have an incredible instinct to help their comrades.

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Loyal blue heeler stays with three-year-old lost in bush overnight

A three-year-old girl is found safe and well with her family's blue heeler after spending more than 15 hours lost on their rural property.

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The Revolutionary Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is About To Set Sail

On a Wednesday afternoon in a sprawling lot on a former naval air station in Alameda, California, across the bay from San Francisco, workers are welding a massive black tube together. The tube–roughly the length of a football field–is one piece of a larger system that will set sail for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch this summer, where it will begin collecting some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash brought there by ocean currents.

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The Unlikely Upside of Cape Town's Drought

What are human beings capable of when it feels as if the world is about to end?

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Fiery siege at Branch Davidian compound reverberates 25 years later

On the 25th anniversary since the religious compound became a fiery charnel house, the plot east of Waco remains a symbol of tragic consequences.

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