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Siberia's permafrost erosion has been worsening for years
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet. As a result, permafrost that is thousands of years old is now being lost to erosion. As measurements...
How cigarette butts can be recycled into bricks: A step-by-step plan
Researchers have shown how industries could work together to recycle cigarette butts into bricks, in a step-by-step implementation plan for saving energy and solving a global littering problem.
Home of 'Asian unicorn' becomes nature reserve in Vietnam
Research by the University of Leeds has helped secure the highest government protection for internationally-important Vietnamese forests.
Can pumping up cold water from deep within the ocean halt coral bleaching?
The risk of severe coral bleaching—a condition in which corals lose their symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae—is five times more frequent today than it was forty years ago. Coral bleaching is...
Mercury concentrations in Yukon river fish could surpass EPA criterion by 2050
The concentration of mercury in the fish in Alaska's Yukon River may exceed the EPA's human health criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are not...
Big Ten to start college football season Oct. 23
The Big Ten Conference said Wednesday it will start 2020 games Oct. 23, changing its previous plans to postpone the fall football season to spring 2021 due to the coronavirus...
Hurricane Sally: Floods, power outages, water rescues across Gulf Coast
Hurricane Sally arrived in the U.S. Gulf Coast early Wednesday, bringing heavy rains, powerful winds and floodwaters to a wide swath of the coastline between Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
Image: Spalte Glacier breaks up
This series of four Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured between 29 June and 24 July 2020, shows a segment of the largest ice shelf in the Arctic break up and shatter...
Marine animals live where ocean is most breathable, ranges may shrink with climate change
As oceans warm due to climate change, scientists are trying to predict how marine animals—from backboned fish to spineless jellyfish—will react. Laboratory experiments indicate that many could theoretically tolerate temperatures...
10 tips for coping with wildfire smoke, from a public health expert
Wildfires have burned millions of acres in the western United States this year. Tens of thousands have been evacuated and thousands of buildings and other structures destroyed. Thick smoke ...
Grow zero-carbon power to meet climate goals: analysis
All new electricity supply growth worldwide can now come from zero-carbon sources, according to a plan released by businesses and environmental advocates Wednesday that charts the path to a net-zero...
Hurricane Sally hits US Gulf Coast
Hurricane Sally barrelled into the US Gulf Coast early Wednesday, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke "historic" and potentially deadly flash floods.
U.N. report says global efforts failed to meet biodiversity goals in 2010s
Global efforts failed to reach any of the 20 environmental goals set a decade ago at the Aichi conference in Japan, according to a new United Nations report.
Sally weakens to Category 1 hurricane near Alabama-Florida border
Hurricane Sally made landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast early Wednesday as a Category 2 storm and brought severe conditions from the Florida Panhandle to Alabama, forecasters said.
Slower growing chickens experience higher welfare, commercial scale study finds
Slower growing broiler chickens are healthier and have more fun than conventional breeds of birds, new evidence from an independent commercial scale farm trial has shown.
Choosing the right cover crop to protect the soil
Research helps farmers pick the best cover crops to keep their soil and nutrients in the field.
Super funds are feeling the financial heat from climate change
The wildfires that have ravaged the US west coast, turning skies orange, are a lurid reminder that climate change looms ever larger as an economic threat.
Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%
Today, at her State of the Union address before the European Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, proposed a new target of a 55% cut in...
Scientists look into tropopause to find early signals of persistent strong rainfall
The flooding season had just ended in China. Persistent strong precipitation events in many regions of China resulted in severe flooding disasters in the just passed summer of 2020. It...
Great blue herons get a break in Vernon, B.C., as council asks developer to plan for their protection
Wildlife protection advocate Jane Weixl is glad to see the city council's unanimous vote to protect a great blue heron nesting area.
Retired biologist takes a stand against cormorant 'slaughter'
It's early on an overcast Tuesday morning, and retired biologist Buzz Boles stands perched on the branch of a dead tree on an island in the middle of Big Rideau Lake....
Task force calls on federal government to spend billions on a 'green recovery'
An independent task force made up of experts in financial and environmental policy is calling on Ottawa to spend $55 billion over five years on clean energy and measures to cope...
Decreasing wildfires observed over Central Africa
Referred to as the "fire continent" by NASA, Africa is surprisingly a crucial hot spot for blazes. Global satellite images have shown that on an average August day, it is...
Nintendo announces mini Direct showcase for Thursday, 'Donkey Kong Country 2' coming to Switch
Nintendo has announced a new mini Direct presentation for Thursday that will showcase upcoming video games for the Switch.
Europe's primary forests: What to protect? What to restore?
Primary forests are forests without any signs of past human use and where ecological processes are not disrupted by human influence. These forests are of outstanding ecological value. They are...
Sally makes landfall in U.S. Gulf Coast as Category 2 hurricane
Hurricane Sally made landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast early Wednesday as a Category 2 storm and brought severe conditions from the Florida Panhandle to Alabama, forecasters said.
Teddy strengthens into hurricane, could become major storm
Days after a disturbance grew into a tropical storm dubbed Teddy in the Atlantic, forecasters said early Wednesday it had rapidly intensified into a strong hurricane.
Smoke from US fires reaches Europe, satellite data shows
Smoke from the fires devastating swathes of the US West Coast has reached as far as Europe, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Wednesday in its assessment of the...