Floating wind turbines could solve our energy issues

Offshore wind turbines are a great idea. When wind farms are built in the sea, people cannot complain about their looks, noise or shaddows. They can also be more efficient, because the wind is not blocked by mountains, buildings or forests.

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Beer byproduct mixed with manure proves an excellent pesticide

The use of many chemical fumigants in agriculture have been demonstrated to be harmful to human health and the environment and therefore banned from use. Now, in an effort to reduce waste from the agricultural industry and reduce the amounts of harmful chemicals used, researchers have investigated using organic byproducts from beer production and farming as a potential method to disinfest soils, preserve healthy soil microorganisms and increase crop yields.

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Risk of brain-eating amoeba, flesh-eating bacteria may increase due to climate change: Experts

Climate change can pose life-threatening risks for swimmers as dangerous pathogens and bacteria thrive and multiply in increasingly warming waters, experts say.

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Coronavirus shows we must get serious about the well-being of animals

Animal suffering not only harms other species, it endangers our own. Here's how we can do better.

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Air Pollution From Factory Farms Is Killing Us

Anew study has revealed that air pollution coming from agriculture leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths every year. Of the 15,900 deaths related to food production, the vast majority—80 percent—were linked to animal-based foods, “both directly from animal production and indirectly from growing animal feed.”

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New 'superfood' for bees may be able to help detoxify hives contaminated with pesticides

Researchers have synthesized a particle as small as pollen, which, when fed to bees, may be able to help them to detoxify hives damaged by pesticides, in an effort to protect the insects.

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Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

This March, as Mongolian herder Batsaikhan Enkhee tended to his sheep, the sky suddenly darkened. The wind picked up, filling his shoes and shirt with coarse, heavy sand. A massive sandstorm had engulfed the Mongolian grasslands. "It was dark like the night," Batsaikhanm, 53, told NPR. "I thought I would die."

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Deepfake maps could really mess with your sense of the world

Researchers applied AI techniques to make portions of Seattle look more like Beijing

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World's Tiniest Pig at 10-Inches Tall, Once Thought Extinct, Is Returning to the Wild

Acting as an important keystone species in its grassland home, the 10-inch tall pygmy hog in North India is coming back from the brink.

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'It's blown it open': Australian teens force global first with climate change class action

The Australian Federal Court rules that Environment Minister Sussan Ley has a legal duty not to cause harm to young people of Australia by exacerbating climate change when approving coal mining projects.

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'Unbelievable' Video Shows Two Bees Work Together to Unscrew a Soda Bottle

While we all recognize bees for their importance in our food chain as pollinators, the clever creatures have a series of other talents, including math ability, face recognition, and even tool use.  

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Earth Is Barreling Toward 1.5 Degrees Celsius Of Warming, Scientists Warn

The average temperature on Earth is now consistently 1 degree Celsius hotter than it was in the late 1800s, and that temperature will keep rising toward the critical 1.5-degree Celsius benchmark over the next five years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.

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Exxon, Shell, and Chevron suffer major setbacks as climate concerns cause power shift

Bill McKibben, a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, talks with Rachel Maddow about three huge oil companies, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and Chevron Corp losing major climate change court cases or being forced by shareholders to address climate concerns.

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A Literal Mouse Plague Is Terrorizing Towns in Eastern Australia Right Now

While the rest of the world continues to tackle the global pandemic, in eastern Australia, waves of mice are flooding farms and towns.

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Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

As Greenland’s ice grinds up underlying rocks it frees up the toxic mercury they contain, potentially contaminating the aquatic life that Indigenous communities rely on for food

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Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades

A new comparison of measurements finds that some don't add up.

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British banks finance 805m tonnes of CO2 production a year

The amount of CO2 production financed by Britain’s banks and asset managers is nearly double the UK’s annual carbon emissions, according to a new report. The study, published by environmental campaign groups Greenpeace and WWF, shows the City provided loans and investments for projects and companies that emitted 805m tonnes of CO2 in 2019.

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Plastic debris on remote islands raises temperatures by 2.5C and threatens turtle populations

Study of Henderson Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands finds plastic acts as an insulator, making sand hotter and leading to more female turtle offspring.

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‘A huge surprise’ as giant river otter feared extinct in Argentina pops up

“It was a huge surprise,” said Sebastián Di Martino, director of conservation at Fundación Rewilding Argentina. “I was incredulous. An incredible feeling of so much happiness. I didn’t know if I should try to follow it or rush back to our station to tell the others.”

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Ending harmful fisheries subsidies would improve the health of our ocean. This is why.

More than one-third of all fish stocks are fished at unsustainable levels, degrading biodiversity, and devastating the future of fisheries and fishermen. Despite this, many governments around the world continue to spend taxpayer money to encourage overfishing, through fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and destructive fishing practices.

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Scientists Warn of Fertility Loss in Many Species Due to Climate Change

An experiment with fruit flies reveals the looming threat of male fertility loss at high temperatures.

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"The whole situation is tragic": About a million bees died when left on a hot UPS truck for weeks

An expert says most could have been saved if a beekeeper had been called in sooner.

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Once Nearly Extinct, The Florida Panther Is Making A Comeback

Brian Kelly, a panther biologist for the state of Florida, opens a creaking gate near Fisheating Creek, a narrow ribbon of preserved land just west of Lake Okeechobee.

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How futuristic floating wind turbines might ride the waves

It could help offshore wind farms reach new depths.

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Stonehenge research at risk if Sheffield archaeology unit closes, say experts

University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead

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China's construction boom is sending CO2 emissions through the roof

China's plan to build its way out of the pandemic is pushing its carbon emissions to record highs, new research has found. The country's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement production grew 14.5% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a Thursday report from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). That's the fastest rate of growth in more than a decade, lead analyst Lauri Myllyvirta wrote.

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21 die due to weather in China cross-country race

Twenty-one people running a mountain ultramarathon have died in northwestern China after hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds hit the high-altitude race, state media reported Sunday.

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Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway

Official's phone logs offer blow-by-blow account of the disaster as it unfolded.

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The crackdown on rhino poaching is starting to pay off, but conservation is more crucial than ever

The sound of Judge Siboleka’s gavel reverberated through the Windhoek High Court on April 19, 2019. Four heads bowed in acceptance of egregious crimes. Sternly, Siboleka extended the sentences of Wang Hui, Pu Xuexin, Li Zhihing and Li Xiaoliang from 11 years to 15. Their charge: the illegal export of 14 rhino horns from Namibia in March 2014.

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Backyard Squirrel Maze 2.0- The Walnut Heist

This is definately an upgrade and worth watching.

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Earth's Biodiversity Could Take Millions of Years to Recover from Human Influence

A new study concludes that extinction rates for gastropods during the fifth mass extinction were worse than believed, and the sixth could be even bigger.

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Climate disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020

Intense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced worldwide hit the highest level on record.

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Could humans really destroy all life on Earth?

Among the many global catastrophic risks known to humans, some are entertained in the media more than the others. Asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions and climate change have all received the Hollywood treatment. And each of these have taken a devastating toll on our planet's life in the past. Yet, unknown to many people, a new global threat capable of destroying life itself is brewing in the shadows of our everyday lives. It's driven by the immense human desire for material consumption. And paradoxically it is a consequence of human life itself.

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‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever

A sow, two cows and a one-legged chicken are the stars of Victor Kossakovsky’s unique documentary, which Hollywood’s most famous vegan, Joaquin Phoenix, has helped to get the audience it deserves. When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle’s family in the countryside. “It was a cold winter,” he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. “Minus 30 degrees.”

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The pet detectives who hunt down China’s lost dogs and cats

With 100 million pet cats and dogs in China, the market for pet-related services is growing, including pet detectives. We speak to a veteran of the business about the tricks of the trade.

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Brood X cicadas threatened by 'death-zombie fungus' that rots half their bodies away

A fungus with the same chemical as psychedelic mushrooms eats away cicadas' abdomens and alters their behavior in strange ways.

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A safer, greener way to make solar cells

Scientists at SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Swansea University, have found a way to replace the toxic, unsustainable solvents currently needed to make the next generation of solar technology. Printed carbon perovskite solar cells have been described as a likely front runner to the market because they are extremely efficient at converting light to electricity, cheap and easy to make.

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Oxford scientists discover how to alter colour and ripening rates of tomatoes

Scientists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Plant Sciences have discovered how the overall process of fruit ripening in tomato (including colour changes and softening) can be changed –speeded up or slowed down – by modifying the expression of a single protein located in subcellular organelles called the plastids. This offers a novel opportunity for crop improvement.

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Just 20 companies are responsible for over half of 'throwaway' plastic waste, study says

The report warns that plastic production is set to grow by 30% in the next five years, creating even more plastic waste and exacerbating the climate emergency.

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Leonardo DiCaprio leads $43m pledge to restore the Galápagos Islands

Actor partners with conservation groups in aim to rewild archipelago and other Pacific islands in Latin America

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Climate change: Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that no new fossil fuel boilers should be sold from 2025 if the world is to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of this century. It's one of 400 steps on the road to net-zero proposed by the agency in a special report. The sale of new petrol and diesel cars around the world would end by 2035.

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Plastic waste can now be turned into jet fuel in one hour

Scientists have found a new way to convert the worlds most popular plastic, polyethylene, into jet fuel and other liquid hydrocarbon products, introducing a new process that is more energy-efficient than existing methods and takes about an hour to complete.

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Roads and highways disrupt bee pollination

The world's network of road and highways may be harming insects and the plants they pollinate. Roads and highways may be harming plants and bees.

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Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in domestic law

Vertebrate animals will be recognised as sentient beings for the first time in UK law thanks to the introduction of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, introduced in Parliament today. The legislation will also ensure that animal sentience is taken into account when developing policy across Government through the creation of a Animal Sentience Committee which will be made up of animal experts from within the field.

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There is ample evidence that fish feel pain

Letter: Dr Lynne Sneddon, who was the first to identify the existence of nociceptors in a fish, on the latest research in her field

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Elephants are dying in droves in Botswana. Scientists don’t know why

Some type of pathogen may be behind the recent deaths of 39 elephants, a new wave that follows 350 deaths last summer.

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New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico

A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Thursday.

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Some mammals can breathe through their butt, scientists discover

A long time ago, ancient fish swam in a harsh aquatic environment, with scarce light and limited oxygen. Many died but some survived and evolved, eventually giving rise to Misgurnus anguillicaudatus — a type of loach fish common in parts of East Asia. The loach fish’s secret survival mechanism? A unique form of intestinal breathing via their posterior.

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Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don't Let Them

A new Harvard study highlights a decades-long trend — how industry creates systemic problems and then blames consumers for it 

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Is Beef the new coal? Climate-friendly eating is on the rise

Eleven Madison Park, a top Manhattan restaurant, is going meatless. The Epicurious cooking site stopped posting new beef recipes. The Culinary Institute of America is promoting "plant-forward" menus. Dozens of colleges, including Harvard and Stanford, are shifting toward "climate-friendly" meals.

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