Environment & Sustainability

Scientists have never quite understood how hail works. Meet the storm chasers trying to change that.

In one of the planet’s most exotic locales, landfill restrictions have led to rampant illegal dumping, open trash burning and a “gigantic haze” over the island. By Alula Alderson BALI, Indonesia —Piles of trash line the roadsides, plastic floats in…

When Rebecca Lindsey was fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last February, the first thing she did was stew. Then she worried about what was going to happen to the website she and her team had built over…

Animals may inhabit the same world as us, but new research shows how their perceptions of what is around them differs Imagine standing in your garden. A bumblebee whizzes overhead too quickly to follow, a sparrow darts from the fence…

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused.

How predicting slugs’ behaviour is helping farmers and their crops.

Kidderminster Harriers want to build several football pitches on nearby green belt land.

KATHMANDU — The animal Brian Houghton Hodgson saw looked almost like a pangolin, but it didn’t tick all the boxes. It had amor-like scales from head to tail, just as the French zoologist Georges Cuvier had earlier described. But it…

The timing – on the day the Ocean of Peace Alliance treaty was signed with Fiji – reads as provocation at best, coercion at worst Chinese government tells critics not to ‘overinterpret’ missile test in Pacific as criticism grows At…

In New York City, emergency rooms last week logged the highest number of patients treated for heat-related illnesses in years.