The world lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017, according to new data from a global satellite survey, adding up to an area equivalent to the whole...
Bumblebee colonies fare better in villages and cities than in fields, research has revealed.
Bumblebees are important pollinators, but face threats including habitat loss, climate change, pesticide and fungicide use and parasites. Now...
ABB has been selected by IONITY as the main technology partner and supplier. ABB's Terra High Power electric-vehicle chargers enable launch of IONITY service station on the A2 motorway in Switzerland.
IONITY, which...
Mumbai has the become the largest Indian city to ban single-use plastics, with residents caught using plastic bags, cups or bottles to face penalties of up to 25,000 rupees (£276) and three...
Scientists have uncovered a new threat to the world’s endangered coral reefs. They have found that most are incapable of growing quickly enough to compensate for rising sea levels triggered by global...
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced an ‘Energy Storage Roadmap’ to guide the state toward its energy storage target of 1.5GW by 2025.
This figure is equivalent to the electricity demand...
The use of antibiotics in chicken farming has by now been widely repudiated by US fast-food joints, including the likes of Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, KFC, and Subway. Pizza Hut is already among their...
Tiny amounts of cocaine flushed into rivers cause eels to become not only hyperactive but to suffer from muscle wastage, impaired gills and hormonal changes, a study has found.
The impact of traces...
Daimler, through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy and with partners, is turning a coal power plant into a large energy storage facility using over a thousand modules from its electric car battery packs.
Like...
Italian fashion company Kloters has created a T-shirt that cleans the air through a specially designed insert capable of capturing and disintegrating pollutants and foul odors. Called RepAir, the shirt was designed...
Thanks to human activity, some daytime animals are switching over to the night shift.
Justin Brashares noticed it first in 2013, when he was studying olive baboons in Ghana: during times that humans...
Right now, we're in a real crisis when it comes to bees.
Every year, about a third of our honeybee colonies collapse. And the 4,000 native bee species in the United States suffer...
Uber launched a new program to increase access to electric vehicles for drivers and riders, the company announced Tuesday.
The "EV Champions Initiative" offers financial incentives to some EV drivers; an in-app feature...
India is facing its "worst-ever" water crisis, according to a report from a government think tank issued last week.
Around 200,000 Indians die each year due to lack of water access, the report...
On a busy weeknight, takeout and fast food are easy dinner time solutions. But your family's favorite on-the-go meal may come with a side of toxic fluorinated chemicals.
Per- and polyfluoralkyl substances, or...
Smog more toxic than can be measured by monitoring devices has blanketed the Indian capital this week, months before the start of Delhi’s traditional “pollution season”.
A thick haze was visible across the...
