Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished.
“We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Brad Lister....
During the 2016 campaign and in various postelection rallies, President Trump promised to save America's flagging coal industry and put the nation's coal miners "back to work." While Trump continues to labor under the delusion that...
The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, so scientists are trying to speed up evolution by fostering the spread of creatures who can take the heat. Think of it as natural...
The government has announced only the cleanest wood-burning stoves will be available for sale from 2022.
Polluting household fuels could be banned under the UK Government’s Clean Air Strategy for 2019, published today.
Ministers...
A new report suggests a poorly handled deployment risks exacerbating social divides across the UK
Millions of people could miss out on the environmental, health and financial benefits offered by electric vehicles (EVs).
That’s according...
On Thursday the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the Iowa Ag-Gag law, holding that the ban on undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses violates the First Amendment....
Maintenance and sanitation problems also reported 18 days after government shutdown furloughed the vast majority of park staff.
Volunteers helping tourists at the Joshua Tree National Park in California.
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The limitation and harmfulness of fossil fuels in energy production lead humanity towards finding and exploiting alternatives to these dirty energy sources at higher level. Windmills are springing up across our planet,...
Gifts have been opened, cookies have been eaten, Christmas has come and gone. Still, the last vestige of holiday festivities remains: the slowly decaying Christmas tree husk in your living room.
Even as...
Dragan Ninkovic, a traffic engineer, had worked at “Autocentar Petrovic” before he got a position of a director of “Parking - Sabac”, the Public Utility Company. He was a member of the...
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat. Although scientists exercise great care before linking individual weather events to climate change, the rise in global...
Coastal development and sea level rise are causing the decline of tidal flats along the world’s coastlines, according to research that has mapped the ecosystems for the first time.
Scientists from the University...
Global coal generation is plunging into a ‘death spiral’.
That’s the verdict from environmental think-tank Carbon Tracker, which has published a new report suggesting 42% of the world’s operating coal fleets are already...
Releasing ‘pure’ animals could counter interbreeding with domestic cats, experts say.
Conservationists could release wildcats captured from other European countries in the Scottish Highlands in a final effort to protect Scotland’s population from...
UK waste collection firm Business Waste suggests sticky tape can pose a real environmental hazard.
Could wrapping presents put the environment in a sticky situation?
UK waste collection firm Business Waste claims sales of...
Louisiana is ground zero for the devastating impacts of climate change. Even though the state is already feeling the costly impacts to life and property due to extreme weather and an eroding coastline linked to...
