Environment

An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from …

Strategies include thinning high-altitude clouds to allow more heat to escape The National Academies of Science on Thursday called for the United States to pursue research into solar geoengineering to …

Sport is ‘floating on a sea of high-carbon sponsorship’ with soccer top of the league for deals with car makers, airlines and fossil fuel companies, according to a study published …

For millions of Americans, this May will be an extra noisy month. A once-every-17 year hatch of periodic cicadas is set to occur across parts of the eastern United States …

The International Monetary Fund should adopt ambitious goals for assessing the physical and policy-related risks of climate change facing its members after years of paying minimal and uneven attention to …

China is today the world’s largest emitter of planet-heating gases, responsible for about 28 per cent of total global emissions China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental …

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg calls for urgent action to address the climate and ecological crisis. She reminds the world of the promises made to children and grandchildren …

The devil-eyed frog, which was previously known only from a single individual observed more than 20 years ago, was found to be relatively abundant in the cloud forest A scientific …

FILE PHOTO: Chinstrap Penguins swim near Two Hummock Island, Antarctica, February 2, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino Climate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to …

REUTERS/Peter Cziborra Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, …