Environment

Some two dozen minor tremors have hit Mount Rainier, the active volcano towering over the Seattle metro area, over the past week. The strongest of the quakes had a magnitude of ...

Hurricanes tear apart buildings and destroy human lives, so naturally, people focus on the impact on populated areas. ...

Biotech company Oxitec announced on Sept. 5 that it has started releasing genetically modified (GM) moths in Geneva, ...

The world faces water problems on a scale never before experienced in history. The global population is growing ...

Water flows through powerful hands before it trickles down to those least able to afford it. Multinational corporations ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, says it may dump as much ...

A precedent-setting release of genetically engineered insects could soon take place in Geneva, New York. On July 6, ...

After being caught in shrimp traps for five days, a 30-ton humpback whale off the Crescent City coast was ...

The massive iceberg that broke off of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, sounds alarming, but it ...

Chilean scientists have produced biodiesel from microalgae in a process they hope can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ...

The temperature and acidity in the Mediterranean Sea are rising, and researchers are worried it will lead to ...

Grizzly bears are out of the endangered zone in and around Yellowstone National Park. "As a kid who ...

President of the United Nations General Assembly, Peter Thomas, welcomed a delegation from Italy to the UN North ...

Scientist are working to preserve memories of a glacier. They are collecting ice fragments from a glacier in ...

The Yellowstone national park has been shaken by 464 earthquakes between June 12 and June 19, with the ...

Life is a series of risk-benefit analyses. With every decision—from trying a new toothpaste to choosing a career—we ...

Fleece sweaters, yoga pants, and other clothing made of synthetic materials release thousands of plastic microfibers every time ...

This thing is a bristle worm---or possibly a eunice worm A man got a shock when he discovered a ...

Twelve thousand reindeer, 3,500 polar bears, and 2,700 people populate the remote Svalbard islands, located between Norway and ...

The world is drenched in glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's signature herbicide, Roundup. It is the most ...

Tonnes of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean could disappear by half in five years with the help ...

A chance discovery made by a scientist and amateur beekeeper has led to a potentially game-changing discovery in ...

There's a potential solution for ocean pollution.

Many companies that deal in commodities linked to heavy tropical deforestation, such as soy or timber, have made ...

In almost every aisle of the grocery store, you can find products from the palm oil, soy, wood, ...

When was the last time you remember seeing a star-filled sky? Have you felt like you're not getting ...

LONDON—Scientists have found evidence of how ancient Britain separated from Europe in what they are dubbing "Brexit 1.0"—a ...