Scientists find 25,000 barrels of possible DDT at 'staggering' dump site near California coast

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating to World War II has long been suspected.

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This Duck Called "Long Boi" Is Going Viral For How Tall He Is

"Look at the size of this lad. Absolute unit."

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An Act of Wonder Dr Billy Griffiths

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'Alarming': World's glaciers are melting faster than ever because of global warming, study says

Most of Earth's glaciers are melting faster than ever because of human-caused climate change, dumping about 328 billion tons of melted ice into the world's oceans each year, according to a new study.

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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber

Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

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Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs

Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt's Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.

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Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis

The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic.

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Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

"The rate at which we're growing the industry is absolutely scary," says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University. He's talking about the market for electric cars in Europe. By 2030, the EU hopes that there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads.

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Meet 5 of Australia’s tiniest mammals, who tread a tightrope between life and death every night

One mammal, the long-tailed planigale, can weigh less than a 10-cent coin. But it's ferocious, bringing down far larger prey with persistent, savage biting to the head and neck

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TECLA Technology and Clay 3D Printed House / Mario Cucinella Architects

Text description provided by the architects. The first eco-sustainable housing model 3D printed entirely from local raw earth. This genuinely innovative and pioneering approach was conceived from the start as a joint project between the two firms, who worked closely throughout the project’s design and construction.

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Crows removing ticks from kangaroos (part 2 of 5)

Hard to stop watching these.

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Soon, the internet will make its own cat photos and then it won’t need us

Bleep bloop meow.

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Earth's axis has been shifted by climate change, study says

Scientists behind the study, said that melting glaciers have contributed to the shift observed in the 1990s.

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Ishi-no-Hoden: Japan’s Colossal Floating “Anti-epidemic” Megalith

Ishi-no-Hoden is one of Japan's most mysterious and bewildering monuments, a gigantic stone structure in the shape of an old tube TV almost 6 meters (20 ft) high and 500 tons (560 US tons) in weight that seems to float over a pond in the city of Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture.

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Mexico's drought reaches critical levels as lakes dry up

Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico

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The world's 'most powerful' tidal turbine is nearly ready to power on

Earlier this week, a company Orbital Marine Power successfully launched its latest tidal turbine. Once it’s connected to the European Marine Energy Centre off the Orkney Islands, the two megawatt O2 will have the capacity to generate enough energy to power 2,000 UK households annually, making it one of the world’s most powerful tidal turbines currently in use.

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China could save $1.6 trillion by replacing coal with clean energy, report finds

China could stand to benefit economically if it can successfully replace coal with renewable energy, according to a report by financial analytics company TransitionZero. The study looked at the costs, or savings, that the Chinese government would incur if it replaced its existing coal-fired power plants with zero-carbon alternatives.

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California Governor Moves To Ban Fracking By 2024

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to ban hydraulic fracturing by 2024 as part of a longer-term aim to end all oil extraction in the state. The governor has ordered the state's top oil regulator to implement regulation to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024. He has also directed the state's air resources agency to look at ways to phase out oil extraction completely by 2045.

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Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought

Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones – now tests reveal that they don't merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us.

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Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing.

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In the tombs of Saqqara, new discoveries are rewriting ancient Egypt’s history

Seated in a yellow plastic laundry basket attached to two thick ropes, I was lowered into the earth. The light got dimmer, the temperature colder. A musty smell filled the air. The only sound was from the workmen above handling the ropes and yelling “shweya” — slowly.

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Joe Biden asserts America’s role in the fight against climate change

MEETINGS OF GLOBAL leaders always combine, in varying proportions, pomp, substance, glitches and questionable set design. The first day of President Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit on April 22nd was no different. There were lofty declarations and flurries of press releases. Presidents spoke from desks festooned by flags. Mr Biden—along with John Kerry and Antony Blinken, America’s climate envoy and secretary of state, respectively—sat at a desk curved around an oddly scraggly patch of grass.

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The science of bushfires is settled (part 2)

Eucalypts are incinerators from hell dressed up as trees. - I don't know where part 1 went. I also added some triumphal music to listen to as you read this. It is somewhat over the top!

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The wild frontier of animal welfare

Should humans care whether all creatures live good lives, even in the forests or jungles? A group of philosophers and scientists has an unorthodox answer.

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'World's most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee

A tidal-powered turbine, which its makers say is the most powerful in the world, has begun its journey from Dundee to Orkney. The 680-tonne Orbital O2, which is 72m (236 ft) long, was assembled at the Port of Dundee over the past 18 months. It will be anchored close to Orkney where it will produce enough electricity to power 2,000 homes.

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Idaho Senate Approves Bill to Kill 90 Percent of State’s Wolves

The bill would allow the state to hire contractors to kill the wolves, which supporters say are threatening the livelihoods of Idaho’s ranchers.

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Smokable Plants You Can Grow That Aren’t Marijuana Part 2

If you’ve started a garden over the past year, you may have fed your family with the produce you’ve grown. But have you smoked any of it? 

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World entering ‘new epoch’ as solar set to become most economic generation source by 2030

By 2030, all of the world's solar resource will be economic in comparison to local fossil fuel generation, according to a new report from thinktank Carbon Tracker. Already around 60% of global solar generation is economic - with 15% of wind resource being economic - a figure expected to grow to more than 50% by 2030.

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'Not clean, not green, not even healthy': Author slams salmon farming

Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan slams the Tasmanian salmon industry, describing it as disastrous for the environment, with overstated health benefits — and alleging the public had not been told the extent of the expansion plans for fish farms around the state.

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Jack Dorsey's Square and Cathie Wood's Ark suggest bitcoin mining encourages the adoption of renewable energy and isn't environmentally-damaging

Teams from Jack Dorsey's Square and Cathie Wood's Ark Invest produced the results of a research collaboration on Wednesday that aims to show how bitcoin mining incentivizes the use of renewable energy.

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Researchers report possible solutions for hard-to-recycle plastics

Millions of tons of plastic end up in landfills every year. It's a big societal problem and an even larger environmental threat. In the United States, less than 9% of plastic waste is recycled. Instead, more than 75% of plastics waste ends up in landfills and up to 16% is burned, a process that releases toxic gases into the atmosphere.

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Why Climate Change is Driving Some to Skip Having Kids

A new study finds that overconsumption, overpopulation and uncertainty about the future are among the top concerns of those who say climate change is affecting their reproductive decision-making.

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Spain to give pets same rights as humans, a breakthrough in the home of bullfighting

Spain has given pets the same legal status as humans in a sign of growing support for animal rights in the home of bullfighting. Domestic animals will be considered “living beings” under Spanish law instead of mere objects as has been the case until now.

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VIDEO: Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? People On The Front Lines Say Maybe Not

As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it's becoming more and more clear that everybody — from manufacturers to consumers — "over-believes" in recycling.

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Big cats: US senators seek ban on private ownership of lions and tigers

US Senate lawmakers are proposing to ban private ownership of big cats such as lions and tigers in the wake of the Netflix documentary series Tiger King. Support for the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would also ban public contact with big cat cubs, was announced by four bipartisan senators.

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Just 19% of Earth’s land is still ‘wild,’ analysis suggests

Since the 1960s, conservationists have had a standard solution for saving biodiversity: Protect natural areas from human influence. But a new analysis of Earth’s land use going back 12,000 years suggests that even in the time of mammoths and giant sloths, just one-quarter of the planet was untouched by humans, compared with 19% today.

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The wisdom of water: 12 ways to use blue spaces to improve your health and happiness

From relaxing baths to seaside swims, water can be a balm in difficult times. Catherine Kelly, the author of a new book on blue spaces, shares her tips

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What would happen if the polar ice caps melted? It's worse than you think

“The number of people that would be affected by this is about 40% of the world population.”

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Humans Used to Be Good for the Planet, And We Can Be Again

Humans used nearly three-quarters of the Earth's land 12,000 years ago and colonization and industrialization brought negative effects, new research shows.

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Indigenous Woman Wins Goldman Environmental Prize for Protecting 500,000 Acres of Amazon Rainforest

Indigenous Amazon leader Nemonte Nenquimo won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her organizing work to save Ecuador’s rainforests.

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How many T. rexes were there? Billions.

By analyzing what’s known about the dinosaur, paleontologists conclude there were 2.5 billion T. rex over the 2.4-million-year existence of the species

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The Incredible Shrinking And Growing Brains Of Indian Jumping Ants

New research on ants has shown a first in insects: the ability to shrink and then regrow their brains in a big way. It relates to how these particular ants, called Harpegnathos saltator, or the Indian jumping ant, reproduce.

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The Mystery Deepens Over Why The Lost City of Cahokia Was Abandoned

For a couple of hundred years, Cahokia was the place to be in what is now the US state of Illinois. The bustling, vibrant city was at one time home to some 15,000 people, but by the end of the 14th century it was deserted

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Florida Screech Owls Live

Three owlets,all doing fine.

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A68 iceberg that was once world’s largest melts away

The iceberg that was once the largest in the world has melted into several small fragments that are no longer worth tracking. A68 weighed billions of tons and was bigger than the size of Norfolk when it broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in the Weddell Sea on the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula in mid-2017.

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Shadow warrior: Benjamin Netanyahu takes a dangerous gamble with Iran

Israel’s prime minister is creating a climate of fear and crisis as his best hope for holding on to power

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John Kerry: Failing to tackle climate change would be ‘beyond catastrophic’

The consequences of not taking further action on climate change would be “beyond catastrophic” for the planet, US climate envoy John Kerry has warned. The former secretary of state said the need to tackle the issue is “extremely urgent” for the whole world.

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Our Improved PlayStation 5 Packaging

Over the last 50 years plastic use worldwide has increased around twentyfold, but recycling rates remain low at around 9%.1 This has contributed to increased pollution of the world’s oceans, a matter of growing urgent concern. Action is needed now to reverse course and protect endangered marine ecosystems.

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Google Earth's new Timelapse feature shows chilling effect of climate change

Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades with the new tool Timelapse.

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Forest elephants are now critically endangered -- here's how to count them

A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and working closely with experts from the Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon (ANPN) compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants.

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