Browsing: Environment

There’s not much that unites our fractured House of Commons at the moment. But on one issue, politicians from all parties seem to agree: the great…

Floods toll rises to 82The death toll from the flash flooding in central Texas has risen to 82 after searchers found more bodies, the Associated Press…

New Interstellar Object Stuns Scientists as It Zooms through Solar SystemAll eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our…

Heaven only knows what Thomas Hardy would have made of it. On Saturday, protesters will arrive at the Bridehead estate in Dorset, hop across a low…

4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient EgyptForty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence…

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.Of the many things the team here…

A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a…

A conservation project in West Sussex has had its best day on record for rare purple emperor butterfly sighting, and ecologists say they are confident the…

A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the city has replaced its lead pipes, as ordered by a federal court.Flint’s…

As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s impossible to forget just how much the sun affects life on our planet. It’s…