Environment

Millions of tons of plastic waste are transported from the ocean to land every year in missions that…

Brown said tankers had been in the area for weeks, and had originally been outside her home, blocking…

Manoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook…

Rodents often come indoors during winter to stay warm, but there’s a simple way to stop them from…

California is completely drought-free for the first time in a quarter of a century, a significant development in…

Trees floating towards the Arctic Ocean Carl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of boreal forest…

Dan Mann, right, ponders a bone of a marine mammal handed to him by his friend Lewis Sharman…

NEED TO KNOW An apartment in Quebec, Canada turned into an “ice castle” after its tenant left the…

Australia is getting hotter. Climate change is driving more frequent and prolonged extreme heatwaves and our homes are…

Hasheminezhad, A., King, D., Ceylan, H. & Kim, S. Comparative life cycle assessment of natural and recycled aggregate…

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. …

Richard Parks’ hardest climb happened long before he first summited a mountain. In 2009, the polar athlete, then…

Millions of tons of plastic waste are being ripped from the ocean and brought to land every year: energy-intensive mega-industrial operations attempt to transform marine debris into valuable raw materials and contain an environmental crisis that threatens global ecosystems and supply chains