environment

A wind turbine tower is a tube, not a post. It carries the machine on top by keeping…

Imagine a country where vast stretches of land are covered by scorching sand, more than 95% of the…

Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around…

Two distinct climate regimes that could trigger runaway methane emissions are emerging in Siberia due to Arctic warming,…

Damaging winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Lowell pelted Hawaii’s western islands on Tuesday, knocking out power to…

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Rescue operations continue in Venezuela after two deadly earthquakes struck back-to-back on Wednesday night. Aerial video shows collapsed…

A team of researchers just chased a pair of reentering satellites in a private jet to learn about…

Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline hit full capacity for the first time in June, and the company running it…

Lev Parikian paints a vivid picture of the gannets of the Bass Rock and the impact that avian…

The past month has seen a number of major natural disasters occur around the globe, from earthquakes to…

Marine heatwaves could be exposing coastal ecosystems to much more accumulated heat than scientists previously thought. A new…

Wind turbines are built for gusts near 120 miles an hour, so the 10 steel towers a radar truck watched fold across three Iowa wind farms were carrying almost three times that