Environment & Sustainability

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Sunglint on Atlantic Ocean

NASA Sunlight beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. This is an example of sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects off the…

NASA, JAXA to Cover HTV-X1 Spacecraft Departure from Space Station

The new HTV‑X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), carrying about 12,800 pounds of science, supplies, and hardware for NASA and its international partners, is pictured on Oct. 29, 2025, after its capture by the International Space Station’s Canadarm2…

Mongabay launches new desk reporting on, with and for Indigenous communities

Indigenous peoples play a critical role in protecting nature and stemming biodiversity loss worldwide, yet their perspectives and knowledge remain underrepresented in national and international media coverage of environmental issues. While this gap is evident in environmental reporting, it reflects…

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries

Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced UK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering swingeing budget cuts despite ministers’ promises, the Guardian has…

Scotland becomes first UK country to legalise water cremations

Hydrolysis process, using alkaline and water to break down body in a few hours, responds to demand for more sustainable funerals Scotland has become the first part of the UK to legalise hydrolysis, an environmentally alternative to cremation or burial,…

Search for Brazil flood survivors continues as death toll rises to 64

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Landslides and flooding in Brazil’s Minas Gerais that have been state triggered by days of heavy rains have claimed the lives of 64 people, authorities say. Downpours that started late Monday have wreaked havoc across parts of the cities…