Environment

Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as...

Andrew Aitchison/Getty ImagesThe government's Warm Homes Plan promises £15bn to help UK households pay for green technologies such as heat pumps, as part of its efforts to drive down energy bills and cut planet warming emissions.Heating homes accounts for...

The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban pollution, are affecting the marine environment. Extensive research shows how this combination of stressors represents one of...

Justin RowlattClimate EditorAFP via Getty ImagesA network of undersea cables already connect the electricity grids of European countries - the UK has 10 such cables - but connecting wind farms directly to multiple countries will be a first. Most...

A severe winter storm sweeping across the central and eastern U.S. in late January 2026 is threatening states from Texas to New England with crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow. Several governors issued states of...

Getting involved in the arts isn’t just a pleasurable pastime; it also appears to keep us healthier – and...

Two “megapests” that are already a major problem for farmers worldwide, the cotton bollworm and the corn earworm, have...

When I first started writing about ageing years ago, there was a buzz around something called biological clocks, also...

Our environmental and social problems are pressing and, in many countries, money is short and politics deadlocked. Wouldn’t it...

Mark PoyntingClimate researcherReutersGareth Redmond-King, head of international programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said that weather extremes fuelled by climate change were already hitting food production in some parts of the world."This is a cost-of-living crisis, driving...