A company that specializes in early wildfire detection has developed a new, AI-based drone that it says will help speed up the detection, location and monitoring of fires
March 28, 2025
South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as
March 27, 2025
At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina
March 27, 2025
Demand for the patchouli plant’s oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who now grow and process it
March 28, 2025
As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene
March 27, 2025
Wall Street's top regulator said on Thursday it had voted to cease legal efforts to defend regulations that require companies to disclose climate-related emissions, risks and spending, and
March 27, 2025
Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago
March 27, 2025
The Trump administration invited companies to email the Environmental Protection Agency to seek presidential exemptions from nine clean-air regulations, including mercury limits
March 27, 2025
Nineteen sea turtles that rehabbed in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England are now back in the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida
March 27, 2025
New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places on land
March 27, 2025
Just Stop Oil says it will stop throwing soup at paintings and end disruptive protest
March 27, 2025
Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years.
March 27, 2025
Crews battle Freedom Farm Fire in Leicester, more than 80 acres burned, 0% contained
March 27, 2025
Family forced from home during Helene loses their 'Cabin of Hope' to North Carolina fires
March 27, 2025
British Steel says it is planning to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in the north England town of Scunthorpe, after its Chinese owner Jingye failed to agree a rescue package with the U.K. government
March 27, 2025
Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.
March 27, 2025
The Trump admin accuses EPA of squirreling away $20 billion in ‘gold bars.’ Here’s what’s really going on.
March 27, 2025
The heavy rains that led to catastrophic flooding in central Argentina and killed 16 people earlier this month were partly fueled by climate change and could become
March 27, 2025
Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood on Thursday in stark contrast to the kaleidoscope of colours that are a
March 27, 2025
Centuries-old Buddhist temple destroyed in ‘unprecedented’ and deadly South Korea wildfires
March 26, 2025
The sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry is falling short of its 2030 targets with production not ramping up quickly enough, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found in
March 27, 2025
Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst
March 27, 2025
Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions
March 26, 2025
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to
March 27, 2025
Multiple wildfires raging across South Korea’s southern regions for days have killed 26 people and destroyed more than 300 structures, as thousands of personnel and dozens of helicopters has mobilized again to battle the the county’s worst-ever blazes
March 27, 2025
Japan’s natural hot springs are running low. Overtourism is to blame
March 27, 2025
Fish sauce is an indelible part of Vietnam's culture and essential for its vibrant cuisine
March 26, 2025
South Texas faces half a year’s worth of rain as rare severe storms threaten the Pacific Northwest
March 26, 2025
$1.2 billion power plant faces environmental pushback
March 26, 2025
Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut
March 26, 2025
Micromobility startup Also said on Wednesday it has been spun-off from electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive with $105 million in Series B funding from venture capital
March 26, 2025
The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine could come back online within months of a ceasefire, but it would probably take more than a year to
March 26, 2025
Ukraine accused Moscow on Wednesday of being incapable of managing safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after what it said were reports of a huge spillage of
March 26, 2025
Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels
March 26, 2025
Environmental groups and residents are suing the Spanish state and the region of Galicia in a landmark case over alleged decades-long mismanagement of pollution caused by intensive
March 26, 2025
Relatively wet and mild weather has kept Norway's hydropower reservoirs well-filled over the winter but also limits the risk of a large spring flood that could see water
March 26, 2025
Accelerated climate action could boost global GDP by 0.2% by 2040 compared with current policies, a study showed on Tuesday, as delegates from 40 countries meet in
March 25, 2025
Last year was Ukraine's worst year for wildfires in more than three decades of record-keeping, as shelling along front lines in the war with Russia triggered an
March 26, 2025
Russia sees scope for international investors, including from the Global South, to help develop its Arctic region, a senior official said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
Wind-driven wildfires in South Korea’s southern regions have killed at least 24 people, forced the evacuation of 28,800 others and destroyed more than 300 structures
March 25, 2025
What goes down your toilet and drain can end up on farm fields across the United States
March 26, 2025
Opposition to the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer is growing across the country
March 26, 2025
Firefighters, residents brace for potential merger of Black Cove and Deep Woods fires
March 26, 2025
Black Cove Complex fire grows, more evacuations ordered, homes destroyed
March 26, 2025
These discarded objects will form humanity’s lasting geological footprint, paleontologists say
March 26, 2025
Dry conditions, wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene are fueling wildfires in North and South Carolina
March 25, 2025
A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
March 26, 2025
An international agency reports that the installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with 92.5% of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind or other clean sources
March 26, 2025
An Australian senator pulled out a large, dead fish in Parliament on Wednesday to protest the government's proposed laws that would safeguard controversial salmon
March 26, 2025
China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years,
March 26, 2025
A pilot and two children survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was partially submerged in an icy Alaska lake
March 25, 2025
Panama has not authorized visits to First Quantum's shuttered Cobre Panama mine, the country's Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement on Tuesday.
March 26, 2025
They are known as silent killers. Now, unprecedented recordings reveal first known shark sounds
March 26, 2025
Phoenix flirted with its first 100-degree day of the year but fell just short of that milestone
March 25, 2025
A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) above-ground power line near the Pacific Palisades was energized when the Palisades Fire began early this year
March 25, 2025
At least 16 people have died as multiple wildfires rage across South Korea's southeastern region.
March 25, 2025
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution
March 25, 2025
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds
March 25, 2025
A new map of hazard severity zones established by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection greatly expands the areas labeled as being at “very high” risk of fire. Owners of homes within these zones will be required to establish fire mitigation measures on their property. The last map was issued in 2011. In the years since then, the danger posed by large fires in California has mounted rapidly. All four of the most destructive fires in California history — The Camp Fire in 2018, Tubbs Fire in 2017, and the Palisades and Eaton Fires this year — have
March 25, 2025
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March 25, 2025
Trump administration highlights drug cartels as major national security threat but omits climate change
March 25, 2025
Payne County wildfires caused 8 years' worth of damage in 12 hours, officials said
March 25, 2025
Woman shares 'extremely terrifying' moment she says her car was hit by lightning
March 25, 2025
Bangladesh reported a first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu on a farm since 2018, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Tuesday, citing local authorities.
March 25, 2025
New buoys listen for critically endangered right whale sounds off Massachusetts coast
March 25, 2025
The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none since Lucia Perez
March 25, 2025
Honeywell said on Tuesday it has appointed David Sewell to lead its advanced materials business, which is set to be spun off into an independently listed company by late this year or early
March 25, 2025
Wildfires spread across South Korea's southeastern region on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of inmates from local prisons and
March 25, 2025
Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a
March 25, 2025
Students collab with Mixed Blood to merge theater with climate activism
March 25, 2025
Several residents of Los Angeles who were affected by the deadly Palisades wildfire sued city authorities over claims that municipal utility power lines ignited the fire, according to a
March 25, 2025
The Army Corps of Engineers will complete as soon as next week its revised list of energy projects that could be fast-tracked under President Donald Trump's
March 25, 2025
Fires are a natural part of the landscape and essential for many species. But scores of fires at once were more than anyone bargained for.
March 05, 2025
Since the 2023 Maui fires that destroyed Lahaina, communities across Hawaii have sought ways to protect themselves from more destructive fires wrought by decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies
March 25, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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