The underwater continent broke off from Gondwana 80 million years ago.
A new ocean-mapping expedition is drawing the boundaries of Zealandia, a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and…
As world shifts to green energy, Iraq and Nigeria among those vulnerable to ‘wave of instability’.
Oil-dependent countries that are not preparing to adapt to the global shift away from fossil fuels…
This is the question Energy Monitor has tried to answer over the past week, with a series of in-depth articles to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan. Here is our…
Destruction of the world’s forests increased last year even as pandemic shutdowns curbed economic growth, adding more pressure on nations and business trying to cut carbon emissions.
At a time when activist fund campaigns are gaining in popularity, it is worthwhile asking a few questions about the goals of this new kind of shareholder.
The activity of common pipistrelle bats was found to be around a third higher at the turbines than control locations.
One of the most abundant bats in Europe may be attracted to wind turbines and…
It makes up the concrete of our houses, the tarmac of our roads, the glass in our windows and the silicon chips in our phones.
But sand, a building block of modern life that sits at the heart of a…
Nanoparticles found in foetal brains and hearts, but impact on human health is as yet unknown.
Tiny plastic particles in the lungs of pregnant rats pass rapidly into the hearts, brains and other…
Scientists say the planet is facing its "sixth mass extinction" and human activity is to blame. But as ecosystems change at unprecedented rates, predicting what future life on Earth could look like…
The oceans are ready to give back your 1980s hair spray.
The global oceans are gearing up to spray all that 1980s hair spray back in our faces. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the aerosol chemicals that…
Frozen soil held plant fragments that may be a million years old.
Frozen soil that was collected in Greenland during the Cold War by a secret military operation hid another secret: buried fossils…
Maybe just... stop doing it?
Ocean trawling, a fishing method that involves dragging heavy nets across the seafloor to catch seafood, generates as much carbon as the entire aviation industry, a new…
Exclusive: Roads make up 1% of the country but the pollution produced may harm wildlife everywhere.
Pollution from roads affects virtually every part of Great Britain, with 94% of land having some…
ISTANBUL (AP) — The presidents of Turkey and Russia remotely inaugurated the construction of a third nuclear reactor at the Akkuyu power plant in southern Turkey Wednesday, vowing to continue their…
Many utilities and nations around the developed world may be announcing accelerated moves away from coal-fired power projects, but a new report indicates that financing support for this resource is…
Paper says machine learning could prove crucial tool in efforts to improve quality of country’s rivers.
Nearly 1,000 “dark discharges” of untreated sewage from two water company treatment plants in…
Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise
2020 was meant to be a landmark year in…