Students' clever solution to cut tyre pollution

We hear a lot about single-use plastics like bottles and packaging but tyre wear is a big problem.

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First Nation fights to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

The Gwich'in First Nation is once again facing down a threat to their way of life, as outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump makes a late-game effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration before he leaves office.

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A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky

An online-payments company may fund more carbon removal than anyone else.

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Stop Everything - It Turns Out Wombats Also Have Biofluorescent Fur

First we discovered platypus would look great at a rave, now wombats, bilbies and other marsupials can join the blacklight party - with scientists unexpectedly finding they all glow wonderfully fluorescent greens, blues and pinks beneath UV light.

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'World's Loneliest Elephant' Moving To Sanctuary, With Help From Cher

Singer Cher was in Pakistan on Friday with a message for "the world's loneliest elephant": There is life after love. Kaavan the elephant has been languishing in poor conditions in Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad since 1985, according to the animal welfare group Four Paws International. He was brought there as a gift from Sri Lanka at 1 year old.

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The solar discs that could power Earth

Space-based power stations are turning from an idle dream into a serious engineering prospect, as scientists hope they can take renewable energy into orbit.

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Trump administration proceeds with rollback of bird protections despite objections of scientists, environmentalists

The Trump administration on Friday advanced its plans to cut federal regulation protections for birds despite criticisms from scientists and former federal officials that the move will likely be severely detrimental to the U.S. bird population.

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An unusual snack for cows, a powerful fix for climate

Scientists have discovered that feeding seaweed to cows significantly reduces the amount of methane they produce and burp into the atmosphere, while also helping them produce more milk and grow bigger on less feed. When grown in the ocean, seaweed helps to filter the water, making the idea of farming seaweed to feed to cows a win-win for the environment and farmers.

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Why some food brands want you to know their climate impact

Food labels already indicate how good or bad a product is for you. But good or bad for the planet? That's often much less clear. Now a growing number of brands are labeling their products to show their climate impact. Swedish food company Felix is one of them. For two days in October, Felix opened a pop-up store in Stockholm, where all items were priced based on their carbon footprint. The bigger their emissions, the higher the price.

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Why Seagrass Could Be the Ocean's Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

A vast, mostly invisible ecosystem crucial to our life on Earth is in trouble, but efforts to save the 'prairies of the sea' are finally coming into focus

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Fruit fly offers new insights into attention and sleep

The ability to study sleep and attention in fruit flies could lead to a greater understanding of these potentially related phenomena in humans.

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Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem

Lab experiments developing and testing fake Martian dirt are proving just how difficult it would be to farm on the Red Planet.

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Amazon and Apple 'not playing their part' in tackling electronic waste

Global giants such as Amazon and Apple should be made responsible for helping to collect, recycle and repair their products to cut the 155,000 tonnes of electronic waste being thrown away each year in the UK, MPs say. An investigation by the environmental audit committee found the UK is lagging behind other countries and failing to create a circular economy in electronic waste.

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Scientists race to find ancient bananas that can save one of the world's favourite fruits

In the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, 15-metre-tall ancestors of modern-day, cultivated bananas contain the precious genetics that could save the popular fruit from climate change, pests and disease.

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Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how

In 2019, Oslo, Norway recorded zero pedestrian or cyclist deaths. There was only a single traffic fatality, which involved someone driving into a fence. (For comparison, preliminary figures in London show 73 pedestrian and six cyclist fatalities in 2019; New York recorded 218 total traffic fatalities, including 121 pedestrian and 28 cyclist deaths.)

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Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf

The long read: The wolf is considered a threat to our way of farming, but our fear may be misplaced. Perhaps predators are needed to bring nature back into balance

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How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper

Trawling ancient history with neural nets.

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One of Australia's most famous beaches is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?

Over the past six months, tourists and locals have been shocked to see Byron's famous Main Beach literally disappearing. Satellite imagery and local knowledge has revealed what's going on.

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BREAKING: New Species Discovered in Waters Off Puerto Rico

A new species has been discovered in the deep sea by NOAA and TheVast has captured the details to share! The new species is a comb jelly from the waters near Puerto Rico.

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Microplastics found 8,440m up in Mount Everest's 'Death Zone'

The samples were taken on the trekking routes close to the Khumbu Glacier, at Everest Base Camp, and high into the "Death Zone".

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We Finally Know What a Dinosaur’s Butthole Looks Like

For the entirety of my career as a journalist covering paleontology, I’ve been wanting to know: What does a dinosaur’s butthole look like? When I wrote My Beloved Brontosaurus, a book about dinosaur biology, the chapter on reproduction required a lot of time imagining the nature of a Jurassic behind; one had yet to be found preserved. Even dinosaur models and sculptures often demur on the point of the dino butt, leaving the terrible lizards with terrible constipation.

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Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought

Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks. The claim has earned a mixed response from geologists. Many argue that Earth was too hot at the time for plate tectonics in its modern form.

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Trump gutted environmental protections. How quickly can Biden restore them?

Just a month before he won the U.S. presidential election in 2016, Donald Trump vowed to spend his time in office systematically slashing government rules. "I would say 70 percent of regulations can go," Trump told a crowd of town hall attendees in New Hampshire. "It's just stopping businesses from growing."

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Chinese flower has evolved to be less visible to pickers

For thousands of years, the dainty Fritillaria delavayi has grown slowly on the rocky slopes of the Hengduan mountains in China, producing a bright green flower after its fifth year. But the conspicuous small plant has one deadly enemy: people, who harvest the flower for traditional Chinese medicine.

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The bee population is dying. Researchers have created the first global map of the species to try and help save them

More than 20,000 species of bee exist throughout the world -- and they are dying, thanks to climate change, pesticide poisoning and plant loss.

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Economic Policy Has Become a Partisan Game. That Could Do Long-Term Harm.

Mnuchin’s move and Shelton’s near-confirmation suggest a future of greater risks each time party control changes.

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A satellite that will track Earth's sea level rise is ready to launch

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is set to launch on Saturday as the next generation of spacecraft keeping an eye on global sea level. The satellite will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on November 21 at 12:17 p.m. ET.

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NASA to launch satellite to track rising sea levels

NASA plans to launch a satellite tomorrow that will follow the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans and gather data to improve weather forecasts. The satellite will continue NASA’s three decades-long work to document rising sea levels and will give scientists a more precise view of the coastlines than they’ve ever had from space.

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A destructive legacy: Trump bids for final hack at environmental protections

Donald Trump is using the dying embers of his US presidency to hastily push through a procession of environmental protection rollbacks that critics claim will cement his legacy as an unusually destructive force against the natural world. Trump has yet to acknowledge his election loss to president-elect Joe Biden but his administration has been busily finishing off a cavalcade of regulatory moves to lock in more oil and gas drilling, loosened protections for wildlife and lax air pollution standards before the Democrat enters the White House on 20 January.

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The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system

Expecting the free market to fix global warming is like trying to pound nails with a saw

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Just north of the oilsands, the largest remote solar farm in Canada is about to power up

The project will supply a quarter of Fort Chipewyan’s electricity needs, helping to reduce the need for almost a million litres of diesel each year

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Global map of bees created in conservation first

The data will help protect vital pollinators and could lead to new bee discoveries, say scientists.

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India only G20 nation doing its 'fair share' to meet 2 degree goal — report

Although India is fulfilling its climate goals, its efforts still fall short of the Paris Agreement's long-term goal of limiting global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the 2020 Climate Transparency report.

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Saudi Arabia to impose 10-year jail time, over $7 million fine for cutting down trees

Anyone who cuts down a tree or plant in Saudi Arabia may be fined up to $7,999,018 (30,000,000 Saudi riyal), jailed for up to 10 years, or both, the Kingdom’s Public Prosecution announced on Tuesday.

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Solar Farms Would Replace New Mexico Coal-Fired Plants

A U.S. subsidiary of one of France’s largest providers of solar power has given New Mexico officials more detailed information about the company’s plans for developing a series of solar projects. The installations would help offset the loss of generation from retiring coal-fired power plants in the state, including the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) near Farmington.

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'Some of the darkest places in the world': Joaquin Phoenix on a photobook about slaughterhouses

In Hidden, 40 photographers go inside factory farms and abattoirs to create a global indictment of the meat industry. Warning: contains images you may find upsetting

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Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either

Sheep are one of the most unfairly stereotyped animals on the planet. Almost everything we believe about them is wrong

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Climate change bigger threat than COVID: Red Cross

The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross said Tuesday, warning that global warming poses a greater threat than COVID-19.

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Biden to enlist Agriculture, Transportation agencies in climate fight

President-elect Joe Biden is eyeing the departments of Agriculture and Transportation as key partners for achieving his climate goals, exciting progressives by broadening efforts beyond traditional environmental agencies. Biden’s climate plan calls for harnessing the power of agriculture to capture and store carbon while innovating to reduce its own footprint. In the transportation sector, he’s called for a massive investment in transit and elective vehicle infrastructure to reduce reliance on gas-powered vehicles.

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The Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine, Drug Addiction and Depression

New research links serotonin and dopamine not just to addiction and depression, but to the ability to control genes.

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Jeff Bezos announces first beneficiaries of his $10 billion climate fund

His choices are a departure from from the kinds of initiatives Amazon and other tech giants are funding.

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Hundreds of towering giant sequoias killed by the Castle fire — a stunning loss

This year's Castle fire killed hundreds of giant sequoias, the latest in a string of Sierra Nevada wildfires that is taking an alarming toll on the world's most massive trees.

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90% of the Global Power Capacity Added in 2020 Was Renewable

There’s been plenty of hand-wringing about the potential for the Covid-19 pandemic to distract from the ongoing fight against climate change. But the latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows promising signs that a “green recovery” may be materializing. Right from the start of the crisis there were fears that the coronavirus would derail fragile efforts to reduce global carbon emissions by pulling politicians’ attention away from the cause or tempting governments to throw out environmental standards to give a shot in the arm to their pandemic-ravaged economies.

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Scientists link record-breaking hurricane season to climate crisis

Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters left by Hurricane Eta in his rural village near the north coast of Honduras, Adán Herrera took stock of the damage. “Compared with Hurricane Mitch, this caused more damage because the water rose so fast,” said Herrera, 33, a subsistence farmer who is living on top of a nearby levee with his wife and child while they wait for the water to recede. “We’re afraid we might not have anything to eat.”

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Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon

NASA plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars to support its long-term exploration plans.

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Ancient Greek god's bust found during Athens sewage work

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A bust of the ancient god Hermes, in good condition, was discovered in central Athens during sewage work, authorities said Sunday.

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Scientists want to use your pee to save the environment

A majority of farmland fertilizers consume 2% of the world's energy. Thankfully, a solution to the problem is much closer than people realize.

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Climate change: Hurricanes get stronger on land as world warms

North Atlantic tropical storms are stronger for longer when they hit land because of global warming.

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Does Google Maps Have Privacy Issues?

Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.

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Food and farming could stymie climate efforts, researchers say

Wind power and geothermal heat aren’t enough to keep the world cool, according to a new study. Even if energy, transportation, and manufacturing go entirely green, emissions of greenhouse gases from the food system would put the world on track to warm by more than 1.5°C, a target set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

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