Environment & Sustainability

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The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical forest and a critical regulator of the global climate, its future is increasingly shaped by the convergence of organized crime and environmental crime. This nexus is accelerating deforestation…

Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules

Exclusive: ministers consider restricting pesticide-based treatments, which can get into waterways and harm wildlife Pet owners across the UK could be banned from buying flea treatment for cats and dogs under new government rules. Ministers have begun an eight-week consultation…

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

The Trump EPA’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding revokes the agency’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Environmental activists are mourning the loss while vowing to resurrect it. By Liza Gross A procession of mourners representing sea level rise, melting…

NASA’s X-59 Shows Streamlined Profile in Wheels-Up Flights

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above the Mojave Desert during its first wheels-up flight on April 3, 2026. NASA As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet takes to the air, its sleek configuration is now on display thanks to…

Update: Artemis II Crew Comes Home

Episode description:  NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are back home. Hear reactions from the Artemis II crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—as they returned to Earth.  For more information about Artemis II, visit nasa.gov NASA is going back…

How big oil is cashing in on Iran war – The Latest

The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies made more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. The conflict pushed the price of…