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Toxicity from farm chemicals increased for most species groups between 2013 and 2019, with insects worst affected Ecological harm from pesticides is growing globally, a study has found, with bugs, fish, pollinators and land-based plants among six species groups hit…
By playing pretend with an ape, scientists found a human hallmark in our closest living relative: the capacity for make-believe.
Pictured from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot. Credit: NASA NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is preparing to launch for a long-duration science mission aboard the International…
In Mississippi, neighbors of a Chevron plant worry that an influx of Venezuelan oil could increase pollution. They want the company to pay to move them out.
Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious environmental pollution and public health concerns for individuals, families and communities. That’s…
By Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Michigan Tech Research Institute Our Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) field team of five arrived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, on July 27, 2025, for a nine-day field campaign to sample the effects of the extreme drought and wildfire of 2023 on wetlands and uplands. The region experienced…
President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable Lebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that…
State culled a number of the non-native reptiles after thousands were ‘cold-stunned’ and dropped from trees Wildlife officials in Florida say they euthanized more than 5,000 non-native iguanas in the state after hordes of the reptiles froze and fell from…
When an Arctic blast pushed deep into the southeastern United States last weekend, it left behind more than freeze warnings and broken records. Over the Atlantic, the cold air reorganized the lower atmosphere into long, parallel cloud bands—patterns that meteorologists…
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