Antarctica's emperor penguins at risk of extinction due to the climate crisis

As Antarctica's emperor penguins are increasingly threatened by the climate crisis, the flightless seabirds will receive new protections under the Endangered Species Act.

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SAFD: Woman escapes house fire after being woken up by dog

A dog woke up the owner of a San Antonio home that caught fire early Saturday morning, allowing her to escape safely. Firefighters responded to the structure fire at 2:30 a.m. in the 9100 block of Ranch Corner, according to San Antonio FD.

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Philippines storm Nalgae kills dozens in floods and mudslides

A severe tropical storm has killed at least 45 people in the Philippines, unleashing floods and landslides in southern provinces, officials say. Storm Nalgae caused the most havoc in Maguindanao province, on Mindanao island. There is extensive flooding in and around the city of Cotabato.

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Expedition finds cache of cameras on remote Yukon glacier, 85 years after mountaineer left them behind

Griffin Post's team was up against the wall, with bad weather moving in after six days of searching. With an hour to go, thanks to some quick thinking by one scientist, they recovered gear left behind by Bradford Washburn in 1937.

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Thawing permafrost exposes old pathogens—and new hosts

The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact, it’s warming nearly four times quicker than the rest of the world, with disastrous consequences for the region and its inhabitants. Many of these impacts you probably know from nature documentaries: ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and polar bears losing their homes. But good news! There is another knock-on effect to worry about: the warming landscape is rewiring viral dynamics, with the potential to unleash new pathogens.

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How a desert bloomed in the driest place on earth

Unusual winter rainfall has produced a floral bloom and explosion of colour on the barren plains of the Atacama desert, prompting Chile’s government to move to protect the area. This month, the new president, Gabriel Boric, announced that the area would be made into a national park – the highest protected status the country bestows – to safeguard the flowering desert, a rare phenomenon which occurs every few years.

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Last Resort: Moving Endangered Species in Order to Save Them

Scientists have long warned that climate change and other threats will require relocating some endangered species outside their historic ranges. Now, U.S. officials are proposing rules that would enable them to use this new — and potentially controversial — conservation tool.

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Tuna Have Been Seen Rubbing Themselves Against Sharks And We Don't Blame Them

Imagine you're a big yellowfin tuna, miles from shore out in the blue, swimming around carefree, until you start to feel a little itch near your eye.

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‘Dying of boredom’: the fight to release Thailand’s shopping mall gorilla

Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagree

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It’s Time To Break Up With Our Gas Stoves | Climate Town

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Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View

You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing “business as usual” would bring the world four or even five degrees Celsius of warming — a change disruptive enough to call forth not only predictions of food crises and heat stress...

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Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality

With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed progress on countries’ past emissions commitments. Severe disruption would be hard to avoid on the current trajectory.

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When the dog stays at home alone / Пока никто не видит

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Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand

Desertification can wear down ancient ruins or hide them under dunes—leaving researchers scrambling to keep track of where they’re buried.

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Researchers reveal secret of aye-ayes’ long middle finger

Video shows captive Madagascan primates using elongated finger to pick nose and eat the mucus

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Why Plastic Pollution Is a Producer Responsibility

We won’t be able to stem the tide of plastic waste until manufacturers are held accountable for their products.

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Why experts say you shouldn't bag your leaves this fall

It's best to chop up and leave a thin layer of leaves in the grass. Rake excess amounts into a landscape bed or garden.

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Scientists discover six new species of rain frog in Ecuador

Scientists in Ecuador have discovered six new species of rain frog. The new species were all found on the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorean Andes, in two national parks. But the scientists who discovered them have warned that all six Pristimantis species were found within a 20km-radius of deforested areas.

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From E. Coli to Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Floodwaters Are a Health Nightmare

Floodwater often contains pollutants and pathogens that can sicken and kill people in the aftermath of a storm.

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Are electric vehicles safe in floods?

To help electric vehicle owners affected by flooding New South Wales & Queensland (March 2022), we’ve put together some information about the risk of electric vehicle battery fire & electrocution.

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The West’s Biggest Source of Renewable Energy Depends on Water. Will It Survive the Drought?

Glen Canyon and the Hoover Dam are “not the whole story.”

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Auroras blasted a 250-mile-wide hole in Earth's ozone layer

Auroras set off spectacular light shows in the night sky, but they are also illuminating another reason the ozone layer is being eaten away. Although humans are to blame for much of the ozone layer's depletion, observations of a type of aurora known as an isolated proton aurora have revealed a cause of ozone depletion that comes from space: Charged particles in plasma belched out by solar flares and coronal mass ejections also keep gnawing at the ozone layer.

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Only 5% of plastic waste generated by US last year was recycled, report says

Only 5% of the mountains of plastic waste generated by US households last year was recycled, according to new research by Greenpeace. Americans discarded 51m tons of wrappers, bottles and bags in 2021 – about 309lb of plastic per person – of which almost 95% ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere in tiny toxic particles.

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‘The birds are all back inside’: could this be the end for free-range eggs in the UK?

In a matter of weeks – or even days – the UK’s free-range chicken sector is expected to be shut down. Any farms that had been giving their egg-laying hens or chickens access to the outdoors will be forced to keep them locked indoors. While the headlines are that bird flu is back after a surge of outbreaks over the past three weeks and fears of festive goose shortages, the reality is it never really went away.

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Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises

Greenpeace USA blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."

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Efficiency of heating: hydrogen versus heatpump

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Backyard Squirrelympics 3.0- The Summer Games

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'If we can make a space station fly, we can save the planet': An astronaut's view on protecting the Earth

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent six months aboard the International Space Station last year, and his view of the Earth was as alarming as it was breathtaking.

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The funniest animal shots to brighten your day

A fake smiling lioness, a hiding owl and even a galloping farting zebra are some of the shortlisted images for the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo awards. See more of the finalists here. 

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Scientists Are Gaming Out What Humanity Will Do If Aliens Make Contact

Do intelligent aliens exist somewhere out there in the universe? It is a grand mystery that has captivated humans for generations, fueling ever-more sophisticated searches of the skies for signs of advanced civilizations. But while aliens have taken many forms in our imaginations—from hostile invaders to inscrutable ciphers—we have absolutely no idea what extraterrestrial life-forms might look like, how they would communicate, or even if they exist at all.

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Guardian emus ferocious with locusts and foxes, but make great pets

Craig Woods was once a fitter-and-turner, but eight years ago he gave it away for a life of hard yakka under the open sky, setting up a chemical-free raspberry farm where he and wife Melissa grow most of their own food and run on solar power and tank water. He also brought home a brood of emu chicks. After a lifelong fascination with Australia's native ratite, Mr Woods wanted to raise the emus as outdoor pets.

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How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back

Robots that can monitor conditions in a hive, do a waggle dance, or even infiltrate the queen’s court could help scientists influence the health of a colony.

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Portugal bets all on renewables after abandoning coal

As the UN steps up calls to make the switch to renewable energy to fight the global climate emergency, Portugal is among the first European Union countries to abandon coal.

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Months after floods, Brazil's Amazon faces a severe drought

Just months after enduring floods that destroyed crops and submerged entire communities, thousands of families in the Brazilian Amazon are now dealing with severe drought that, at least in some areas, is the worst in decades. The low level of the Amazon River, at the center of the largest drainage system in the world, has put dozens of municipalities under alert.

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Why are EU countries leaving the Energy Charter Treaty?

The Netherlands has been the last EU country to announce that it would quit the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over climate concerns — after Poland and Spain. The announcement comes after attempts to modernise the treaty, in a bid to make it compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Welfare Kings? Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) was heavily dependent on subsidies.

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"Dirty" cows are destroying the Amazon rainforest

The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not.

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Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows

Analysis of Arctic lake suggests viruses and bacteria locked in ice could reawaken and infect wildlife

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Climate Change May Favor Nitrogen-Fixing Plants

In Death Valley National Park, which straddles the California-Nevada border, mesquite plants (genus Prosopis) thrive in extreme aridity. While most vegetation types must extract most of their nutrients from fertile soil, mesquites and similar plants receive additional nitrogen from symbiotic bacteria, which enzymatically fix atmospheric nitrogen into an easily absorbed form in exchange for sugars produced during photosynthesis.

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Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They’re Stuck That Way

Certain compounds in our skin determine how much we attract mosquitoes, new research suggests—and those compounds don’t change much over time

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The Ocean Should Have the Legal Right to Life to Combat Climate Change, Researchers Say

Earth’s global ocean should be considered a living entity with its own set of rights and protections, a paradigm shift that is informed by Indigenous worldviews and the burgeoning tradition of Earth law, according to a new article written by an interdisciplinary team of researchers.

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Inside the race to stop lanternflies—before they get to a town near you

It’s a cool, drizzly Sunday morning, but that hasn’t stopped more than 66,000 fans from showing up to see the Steelers take on the New York Jets. At the stadium entrance, the smell of charcoal briquettes fill the air, while portable speakers blast music from innumerable tailgate parties.

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Bush Stone-Curlew chick hatching from its egg

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We Are In The Midst Of A Climate Emergency

Most of us are doing something for the environment. We bring around a tote bag (sometimes), use a metal straw (save the turtles!), and try our best to recycle whatever we don’t need. And at the end of the day, we give ourselves a pat on the back and tell ourselves that we’ve yet again delayed and mitigated some contribution towards the worsening of climate change.

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Climate diet: What to eat to ensure we all live longer

Listener: If we want to tackle climate change, most of us need to eat less meat.

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Australian research finds cost-effective way to recycle solar panels

Process involves using electrostatic separation on PV panels to collect valuable materials, reducing them to 2-3% of original weight

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The Mediterranean sea is so hot, it’s fizzing carbon dioxide

If you stand on the coast of Israel and gaze out across the Mediterranean Sea, you’ll spy deep-blue, calm waters that have sustained humans for millennia. Beneath the surface, though, something odd is unfolding: A process called stratification is messing with the way the sea processes carbon dioxide.

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740,000km of fishing line and 14 billion hooks: we reveal just how much fishing gear is lost at sea each year

Each year, enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost at sea. This not only harms marine life, but also the livelihoods of fishers worldwide.

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Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone

For the first time in history, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has canceled snow crab season due to the dwindling numbers of crabs available. This decision follows a report released in August that showed that snow crab abundance in Alaska is on a steep decline, with stocks down 90 percent in the last two years. Researchers have yet to come up with a cause for this decline, but they have already agreed—climate change is a main factor.

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Why Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships

In a Congolese national park, great apes of different species interact socially, with individuals clearly recognizing one another.

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