Reconstructed coal waste shows promise as active catalyst for wastewater treatment
image: ©Leonsbox | iStock A new review published in Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes suggests that coal gangue, one…
Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years | Wildfires
A spate of ferocious wildfires across North America and Europe, worsened by the climate crisis, has incinerated homes…
We have sharper maps of Mars than of most of Earth’s deep ocean floor, and the little of it we have reached rewrote biology: in 1977 a submersible found thriving life around hot vents in total darkness, fed by chemistry rather than sunlight
The least-known place on Earth is not some remote patch of desert or ice. It is most of…
‘It felt like Jurassic Park’: Gloucestershire photographer’s incredible encounter with Alaska’s giant brown bears
A Gloucestershire photographer has fulfilled a lifelong dream by travelling thousands of miles to one of the world’s…
See The First Perseids As Solar Eclipse Nears: The Night Sky This Week
Topline August begins with a comet getting close to the sun, but for most skywatchers it will be…
The great mystery of the Pathways carbon capture project: Who’s going to pay for it?
When it was first announced in 2022, the Pathways Alliance was a way to thread the needle between…
Starwatch: Mercury to reach farthest point from the sun | Astronomy
This week offers one of the better opportunities of the year to catch a glimpse of the solar…
Sugar gliders not a major risk to swift parrots in Tasmania, new research finds
A new study has called into question the extent to which introduced sugar gliders prey on critically endangered…
Fossilized plants offer a new route to analyze Earth’s past atmosphere
By decoding carbon trapped in ancient plant matter, scientists track carbon fluxes back beyond ocean records. Researchers have…
Wind farms join bottom trawlers and oil rigs in a protected North Sea sandbank
Dogger Bank is a vast, shallow sandbank in the North Sea that was once among the most…
Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space
The Sun continuously sends a fast stream of charged particles through space, a phenomenon known as the solar…
Lake sturgeon latest addition at Toronto Zoo
The latest addition to the Toronto Zoo is being described by the attraction as “ancient” freshwater species. Lake…