Environment

The Azerbaijani government is using COP29 to crack down on environmental activists and other political opponents, according to human rights groups.This is the third year in a row a country hosting the climate summit has been accused of oppression...

Any child who’s spent a morning building sandcastles only to watch the afternoon tide ruin them in...

The gentle, slow-moving Florida manatee has no natural predators.And yet, these charismatic mammals face numerous threats.Manatees are struck by vessels in busy waterways across the state, and a majority bear scars from these collisions....

These days, it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage.A growing question as...

As the world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are seeking practical, economical ways to capture...

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers – the largest such population in any country. Although incarcerated people are locked away from the outside world, they...

As a teenager living in a small village in what was then Yugoslavia, Admir Masic witnessed the...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, endured for tens...

SPLAccording to Nasa’s Dr Jamie Jasinski, whose idea it was to re-examine the Voyager 2 data, the mission will need to take his results into account when designing its instruments and planning the scientific survey.“Some of the instruments for...