Environment

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the region’s most persistent environmental problems. They...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has sharply increased electricity and water consumption, raising concerns about the technology’s environmental footprint and carbon emissions. But the story is more complicated than that.I study emerging technologies and...

Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporterandJustin Rowlatt,Climate EditorAndrew Aitchison/Getty ImagesHouseholds will be eligible for thousands of pounds' worth of solar panels and other green tech to lower their energy bills, the government has announced.The long-awaited Warm Homes Plan promises to...

The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water bankruptcy, with many regions no longer able to bounce back from frequent...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings...

Helen Briggs,Environment correspondentandGwyndaf Hughes,Science videographerConservation biologist, Dr Rebecca Thomas, of Royal Holloway, University of London, who is not connected with the study, said gardens are increasingly becoming important habitats for hedgehogs as numbers fall in the countryside."The best thing...

“I went into the military right after high school, mostly because I didn’t really see the value...

Quantum computing seems to pop up in the news pretty often these days. You’ve probably seen quantum chips gracing...

President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the United States’ global exercise of power. But that link has been fraying since the end of the Cold War, and...

Mark Poynting,Climate researcherandErwan Rivault,Senior data designerGetty ImagesA new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent.Researchers used satellite data and the physics of...