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The leopard shark ‘threesome’ between two males and a female was filmed by a university researcher off New Caledonia. Scientists believe it to be the world’s first recorded observation of two males of the globally endangered species mating in quick…
Menage a trois over in 110 seconds and ‘then the males lost all their energy and lay immobile on the bottom’, marine biologist Dr Hugo Lassauce says A trio of leopard sharks in New Caledonia has made marine science history…
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023 Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has…
A report finds that the top producers of coal, gas and oil are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030 than they were two years ago. By Nicholas Kusnetz The last two years have witnessed…
When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model…
It was the first open-river swim there in nearly a century, the result of decades of work addressing pollution. By Leigh Giangreco More than 250 swimmers jumped into the Chicago River on Sunday morning, marking the first open-river swim…
Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River’s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organized swim in the river for nearly…
Call it a crossroads. Ecological decline is accelerating in too many places at once; institutions that once limited the damage are wobbling; the information channels we rely on to coordinate action are clogged. In tropical forests alone, annual primary forest loss…
Misconceptions about jurisdictional REDD+ programs have been amplified in recent press coverage, such as reports by Climate Home News and Mongabay. This analysis aims to clarify key aspects of JREDD+ to contribute to a more accurate and informed public debate.…
On a sunny, 85-degree day in August of 2025, some 9,300 oysters were loaded into ice-filled containers on southern Maine’s Casco Bay. The boat shuttling them from the warm, shallow waters of Recompense Cove to the marina two miles away…