The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale
November 13, 2023
Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to halt a march seeking to stop construction of an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center
November 13, 2023
Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century contest
November 14, 2023
A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States
November 14, 2023
Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies
November 14, 2023
Scientists found PFAS hot spots in Miami’s Biscayne Bay where the chemicals are entering coastal waters and reaching the ocean. Water samples point to some specific sources.
November 14, 2023
Does Paris have too many SUVs
November 14, 2023
Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s
November 14, 2023
A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil and gas drilling leases for Gulf of Mexico waters in 37 days — rejecting arguments by environmentalists
November 15, 2023
European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 27-nation bloc
November 15, 2023
A recent study focusing on how offshore wind farms in Massachusetts waters could affect endangered right whales does not call for slowing the projects, but says monitoring will be critical.
November 15, 2023
Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government's flagship policy to send migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful
November 15, 2023
Iceland’s volcanic activity is generally tame compared with explosive eruptions along the Pacific’s Ring of Fire. This time, it’s shaking up a town.
November 15, 2023
Lawyers for the founder of truckmaker Nikola Corp. say he should not face incarceration because his criminal conviction is nothing like what landed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in prison
November 15, 2023
One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat
November 16, 2023
A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize
November 16, 2023
About 16 million people in California will pay higher electric and gas bills next year
November 16, 2023
It’s been a long journey from the forests of Arizona, across the dusty high desert of central New Mexico to the edge of what is known as the Yellowstone of the Southwest for one lone Mexican gray wolf
November 17, 2023
Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem
November 18, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade
November 18, 2023
Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world: a stunning amount of coral coverage on undersea mountains
November 18, 2023
State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish
November 19, 2023
Following historic rainfall and flooding earlier this summer, farmers in Graves County, Kentucky sustained field damage and crop loss
November 19, 2023
In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands
November 19, 2023
South African abalone, a curious fist-sized sea snail, is a highly prized morsel in East Asia and the unwitting instigator of 30 years of trouble for fishing communities along Africa’s southern coast
November 20, 2023
SAIC Volkswagen says adjusting plant base "necessary"
Low brow and vulgar? Micro dramas shake up China's film industry, aim for Hollywood
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
Oktoberfest is open. The world’s largest folk festival begins after ceremonial keg-tapping
India's Manipur on high alert over influx of 900 militants from Myanmar
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out