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President says it is inappropriate for UK to be dealing with Gavin Newsom after Ed Miliband meets governor in London Donald Trump has vented his fury against a green energy deal between the British government and California’s governor, Gavin Newsom,…
Costa Rica’s highest court has ruled that government agencies and the national electricity utility failed to adequately protect wildlife from electrocution caused by power lines. The case centers on the Nosara region in northwestern Costa Rica, but conservationists say the…
With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on the planet despite mass extinction events. But around the turn of the 21st century, chelonian numbers in Southeast Asia dropped so…
Levels of some of the most persistent industrial chemicals in the North Atlantic appear to be falling, at least in one unlikely place. Long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) now carry markedly lower concentrations of several legacy PFAS compounds than they…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales, prompting criticism from environmental groups who cite the recent death of an endangered whale. The rules protect the North…
Many view conservation as a ledger of discrete gains—acres saved or species rebounded—but for Gary Tabor, the more vital metric is architecture. He focuses on systems that hold when pressure builds. Few careers illustrate that preoccupation better than that of…
Island’s reservoirs hit record lows even before tourist season starts during worst drought in living memory Europe live – latest updates Authorities in Cyprus have urged residents to reduce their water intake by 10% – the equivalent of two minutes’…
The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoal “You can’t be scared of the storms,” says Jean de Dieu Mokuma…
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near a wilderness area in Minnesota.