Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds
Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes. (Image credit: Nick Ut)The post Heat can age you as much as smoking, a...
View ArticleScientists study plant restoration in Argentina’s deserts
For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add...
View ArticleThe rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot
ALTAMIRA, Brazil — Bartolomeu Moraes, better known as Brasília, was a peasant leader and trade unionist in Brazil involved in a long, bloody land war. In 2002, he was killed after years of opposing...
View Article‘Stranded astronauts’ Butch and Suni set to begin journey home
5 hours ago ShareSave Rebecca MorelleAlison Francis Senior Science Journalist ShareSave NASA After an epic nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally getting...
View ArticleScientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault
A group of scientists due to work together for months at a remote Antarctic research station has been rocked after a member of the team was accused of assault. About 10 researchers typically stay at...
View Article500,000 barrels of DDT in the sea: Interview with documentary directors on...
Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller. Yet this environmental catastrophe is real, as...
View ArticleSri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support
COLOMBO — As the waves creep closer to his home in Kankesanthurai, in Sri Lanka’s northernmost Jaffna Peninsula, 41- year-old Seelan Kandeepan recalls how the sea continuously consumes what was once a...
View ArticleCounting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine...
What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed underwater to pick up any sounds, has long helped scientists detect the...
View ArticleEUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees
The costs that companies will have to bear in complying with the EU regulation on deforestation-free products, or EUDR, are “negligible,” according to a recent report published Feb. 12 by Profundo, a...
View ArticleAustralia faces inflation, agriculture losses after Cyclone Alfred
The Australian government has warned of impacts to the country’s economy in the wake of Cyclone Alfred that caused massive losses to infrastructure, agriculture and the dairy industries when it struck...
View ArticleOfficials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land
This is part two of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Read part one here. Part three, four and five are coming soon. Residents and...
View ArticleSeal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone
Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). For nearly 60 years, scientists...
View ArticleNet zero by 2050 ‘impossible’ for UK, says Badenoch
4 hours ago ShareSave Sam Francis Political reporter Joshua Nevett Political reporter ShareSave PA Media Kemi Badenoch has said it is “impossible” for the UK to meet its net zero target by 2050 – a...
View ArticleA new dawn for night parrots (cartoon)
The night parrot, once presumed extinct and later rediscovered, has had its largest known population discovered on Indigenous land in the Ngurrurpa Indigenous Protected Area of Western Australia, by...
View ArticleWhat environmental history reveals about our current ‘planetary risk’
Recent and major shifts in international environmental policies and programs have precedent in history, but the scale and urgency of their potential impacts present a planetary risk that’s new,...
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How word of a federal funding freeze disrupted efforts to clean up a century’s worth of abandoned mine pollution in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced the state again has...
View ArticleOil spill in Ecuador’s Amazon devastates rivers and wildlife refuge
A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million...
View ArticleEsmeraldas oil spill in Ecuador devastates rivers and wildlife refuge
A massive oil spill in Ecuador, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple rivers and a key wildlife refuge in thick, black sludge, impacting more than half a million residents. A...
View ArticleRep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna...
U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an enormous marine protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean to industrial...
View Article‘Unprecedented’ Supreme Court bill threatens Indigenous rights in Brazil
Indigenous rights in Brazil have been at stake for decades: land invasions, increasing violence and congressional bills against territorial rights enshrined by the 1988 Federal Constitution. But now...
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