environment

Study sounds latest warning of rainforest turning into Savanna as climate warms

Apr 09, 2021 14:00

What is happening at the Amazon-Cerrado boundary may be a precursor for feverish tropical forests across the world. Unlike humans, these forests won't have air conditioners or sunscreens to protect them.
Floods, landslides kill dozens in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor

Apr 04, 2021 06:50

Flash floods unleashed by torrential heavy rains early on Sunday killed 23 people on Indonesia's island of Flores, injuring nine while five went missing, as the tiny neighbouring nation of East Timor reported eight deaths.
First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified

Apr 01, 2021 09:44

Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host’s defenses may offer a route to new pest-control strategies
$Evidence of fracking chemicals found in bodies of Pennsylvania children$

Evidence of fracking chemicals found in bodies of Pennsylvania children

Mar 26, 2021 12:06

State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are demanding an investigation into the public health impacts of fracking after a new study found evidence of harmful chemicals accumulating in the bodies of children and their families living near fracking wells in communities inundated by fossil fuel development.
Three-quarters of Somali families lacking safe water as drought looms: Report

Mar 23, 2021 00:16

Nearly three-quarters of Somali families lack safe drinking water as drought looms across the country and depletes wells, raising the risk of hunger as crops fail and livestock dies, UK-based charity Save the Children said on Monday.
Australia to evacuate thousands as Sydney faces worst floods in 60 years

Mar 22, 2021 05:13

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people on Monday from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years with drenching rain expected to continue for the next few days.
'We're destroying our life-support systems': Study suggests the Amazon now contributes to warming

Mar 21, 2021 11:51

CO2 is not a lone actor. When you consider the whole cast of other characters, the outlook in the Amazon is that the impacts of human activities will be worse than we realize.
Record number of asteroids seen whizzing past Earth in 2020

Mar 21, 2021 11:44

Despite pandemic disruption, astronomers detected thousands of previously unknown near-Earth asteroids last year.
Heavy rains in Australia's east bring worst floods in 50 years

Mar 21, 2021 10:10

Heavy rains along Australia’s east coast over the weekend have brought the worst flooding in half a century in some areas, authorities said on Sunday, forcing thousands to evacuate and damaging hundreds of houses.
Study finds US redlined areas face greater flood risk from climate crisis

Mar 18, 2021 08:17

Decades of segregation and economic inequality in the US shoehorned many people of color—especially Black Americans—into living in neighborhoods that are more vulnerable to climate change