Lab-grown food could be sold in UK within two years
20 hours ago ShareSave Pallab Ghosh ShareSave BBC Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human consumption for the first time within two years, sooner than expected. The...
View ArticleIndigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in...
KOH KONG, Cambodia — “[Officially], the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project was suspended for more than a year and then restarted/reinstated recently. But what I actually see here on the ground is that,...
View Article10 unique community-led conservation solutions in the face of environmental...
Numerous events and policy decisions across the world in the last several months are causing despair among many environmentalists. The abrupt freeze, and potential termination, of international funds...
View ArticleHere’s how tourists are solving a plankton puzzle in Antarctica
Tourists to Antarctica are fueling research on some of the tiniest, most influential organisms on Earth: phytoplankton. These itty bitty critters make their own food and are the base of the food web in...
View ArticleDry season predictability and temperature drive dengue cases: Study
What’s new: Rising temperatures and variation in the length of dry seasons appear to influence the prevalence of dengue fever, according to a recent study conducted in the Philippines. What the study...
View ArticleBreast milk contamination exposes Africa’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem
Synthetic chemicals found in a wide range of products, from textiles to food packaging, and now even breast milk, are endangering infants’ lives in Africa, researchers say. Scientists are still...
View ArticleBills to rise by 80p to fund discounts for homes near pylons
3 hours ago ShareSave Becky Morton and Kate Whannel Political reporters Alex Forsyth Political correspondent ShareSave The cost of reducing energy bills for people who live near pylons will be paid...
View ArticleEarth orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem...
At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life, making...
View ArticleUS national park staff cuts put nature and visitors at risk
The Trump administration, as part of its downsizing of the federal government, fired roughly 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees, who manage protected areas in the U.S. With more terminations...
View ArticleFlash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia
Heavy rainfall and flooding damaged homes and vehicles in Australia, with locals even reporting shark sightings in inland canals. Cyclone Alfred formed over the Coral Sea on Feb. 22, NASA Earth...
View ArticleA bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers...
View ArticleHow bad could the ship collision be for the environment?
6 hours ago ShareSave Esme Stallard Climate and science reporter, BBC News Tom Ingham Climate and science team, BBC News ShareSave Lee Whitaker/Getty Images Environmental organisations and the UK...
View ArticleHow one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with...
In March 1995, a few wolves cautiously exited their pens into the melting snow of Yellowstone National Park, returning there 70 years after guns, traps and poison had wiped them out. The dramatic...
View ArticleHow ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a...
A useful framework for considering the needs of the “more-than-human world” when designing human-made systems is “ecological empathy,” the focus of Lauren Lambert, founder of Future Now, a...
View ArticleWhen a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language
Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to attract females. However, researchers have found that when the males die, these behaviors can disappear with...
View ArticleLunar eclipse to grace pre-dawn sky in the UK
7 hours ago ShareSave ShareSave Getty Images Early-rising UK stargazers are in for a celestial treat later this week as a partial lunar eclipse takes place just before dawn on Friday. Earth will cast...
View ArticleWill Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)
The situation is worse than previously thought In February 2025, three scientific papers were published showing that the climate situation is much worse than the scientific community thought, much...
View ArticleTragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm
LAKE SINGKARAK, Indonesia — Mardianis recalls reading the Quran with his parents and two children here on the western shore of Lake Singkarak before the desperate cries of galodoh. A dark wall of rock...
View ArticleFishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests
The home range of fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus), found in parts of South and Southeast Asia, could be more expansive than previously thought, a recent GPS-collaring study focusing in and...
View ArticleAmazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
10 hours ago ShareSave Ione Wells Belém, Brazil ShareSave A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit...
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