Planet Nine: A World That Shouldn’t Exist
Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than Pluto. Since…
Nature & Environment
The number one thing we can do to protect earth’s oceans
May 23, 2016 — When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific…
‘Great Wall of Africa’ planned to hold back the Sahara
A massive-scale project proposed by the African Union, partly funded by the EU, will see a wall of trees erected at the edge of the…
The unprecedented coral bleaching disaster at the Great Barrier Reef, explained
The scientists who study the Great Barrier Reef are shocked and horrified by what they’re seeing right now. Record hot temperatures in the Pacific Ocean…
The world mourns the loss of Berta Cáceres
Honduran environmentalist leader Berta Cáceres has been shot dead at her home in the town of La Esperanza. “Honduras has lost a brave and committed social…
Smog on the Water
It’s a normal day in Shenyang. Almost. Last Sunday the levels of poisonous airborne particles (known as PM 2.5) reached 1,157 micrograms per cubic metre…
4 Signs the Tide May Be Turning Against Lion Hunting, and 1 It Isn’t
Who could shoot a lion? That’s the question many people are asking on social media and in protests outside the offices of big game hunters,…
Obama cancels plans for oil leases in the Arctic
The Obama administration is abandoning plans to open the Arctic Ocean to more drilling in the face of dwindling industry interest and massive environmental opposition….
Lion hunting debate: Africans see two sides
When Zambia banned lion hunting in 2013, animal welfare groups roared in approval, but rural Zambians who face a threat from big cats and receive…
(Always earlier) Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day has moved from early October in 2000 to August 13th this year. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s annual demand…
UNEP and Brazil together to fight Mercury risks
Mercury can seriously harm human health, and is a particular threat to the development of fetuses and young children. It affects humans in several ways….
Monsanto fears
Neil Young is like good wine, improving all the time. The older he gets the better he becomes. Nothing sad, nothing pathetic no sign of…
The Shaky Science Behind Predicting Earthquakes
It is a typical day and Italy is shaking. I am standing in the monitoring room at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, in…