Browsing: Environment

From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds.The reason, researchers say, is that trees take…

On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely complex three-dimensional structure. Being able to peer past the tops of…

The sustainable period care brand Here We Flo, which launched in 2017 selling “plant powered” pads and liners that are “100% free of nasties”, is removing…

By Mira Rojanasakul Mira Rojanasakul revisited her home state of West Virginia to report on its recovering rivers. Photography and video by Kristian Thacker. June 25,…

A slowing economy and the rapid growth of wind and solar have blunted demand for coal in China. Increasingly, producers are selling coal overseas.Exports in the…

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets…

A rare June heatwave is bringing a stifling, dangerous, start to summer across much of the eastern US this week, with forecasts for temperatures to get…

Amid the multifarious chaos of the past week, many of us might have missed the controversy over the proposed purchase of the energy business Santos by…

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads…

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Exploring Solar System Origins, Is Back on Track after Thrusters Lost PowerThis explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked…