Environment

Longfin squid spawn year-round with seasonal and geographic peaks. In New England waters, spawning has been reported from May to August. Egg clusters, or mops, like the one Ellenbogen photographed, act like a hub. As reported by NOAA Fisheries, female...

A wildlife trust has said it has launched a first-of-its-kind survey to help find out how people feel about nature and guide future conservation efforts.The Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT), in collaboration with the University of Suffolk, has brought out...

As wildfire smoke plumes travel thousands of miles, sunlight and atmospheric chemistry bleach their color, strip away their campfire aroma and add them to the mix of urban smog.Smoky skies plagued the East Coast and...

If being outside in the heat for even a few minutes felt miserable this summer, imagine what it’s like for herders who are always out walking with their livestock and rarely get a break.“We have...

Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire? To answer these questions, communities will first need to know how...

The waters far away from El Niño's Pacific hunting ground are also extremely warm, including around the UK and Europe.The western English Channel has seen almost continuous marine heatwave conditions for more than three years, peaking at 7C above...

These slender, long-winged raptors make an epic annual migration to Africa in winter and return to Europe to nest over summer, often setting up home in agricultural fields. But little is known about the behaviour of juvenile harriers once...

Melanie Simmonds, head of Save the Children Wales, said: "In Wales and across the world, children are breathing in smoke from wildfires, coping with extreme heat and losing the freedom to play outdoors because the air is no longer...

When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears.When that energy reaches the ground,...

"I have not seen an event like this developing in our forecasts before", said Professor Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasts at the Met Office.He says the scale of the growing El Niño is unprecedented in modern climate records.As...