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,…