Heat waves have gotten hotter in the Northern Hemisphere in recent decades. Home to about 90% of the world’s population, with the largest fraction living in the mid-latitudes, more frequent and
A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that a common marine organism could provide new ways to monitor ocean health
I don’t often agree with Matt Canavan on matters to do with global heating. But when the senator labelled the Coalition’s nuclear plan a “political fix” last year, I think he
Volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula – Svartsengi, Reykjanes, Iceland Gold in the nature photojournalism category
Photograph: Ael Kermarec/World Nature Photography awards
Chris Jones, a beef farmer, is very proud of his beavers. “They are just extraordinary,” he says.Since releasing a couple into an enclosure on his Cornwall farm in 2017, he says
A school-age child with measles died in Texas this week, making it the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. This child was one of dozens of unvaccinated kids
NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to see the universe in a whole new way.The agency’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer,
Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030. Read Full Story on UN
So far astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun. If that number already feels ridiculously large, you’d better brace yourself: through extrapolation, there could be