Environment

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture and expanding communities...

The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, oil tanker traffic through the world’s most critical oil shipping choke...

Joseph Paradiso thinks that the most engaging research questions usually span disciplines. Paradiso was trained as a physicist and...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.They include lithium and...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it’s snowing. This “marine snow” is...

A training course on climate change has been specially developed for people with learning disabilities Source link

March, in the northern hemisphere anyway, is about venturing out for some much-needed vitamin D and dodging showers. Forget...

Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with wildlife. River dolphins and endangered Orinoco crocodiles ply its waterways, and over 1,000 freshwater...

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, many billions of metric tons of industrially generated carbon...