There’s Finally Video of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean Sea
An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters…
Pace of US Oil Drilling Inches Up
By Julianne Geiger – Jun 12, 2026, 12:12 PM CDT The total number of active drilling rigs for…
Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average | Antarctica
Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France, sparking concerns for…
Habits that can turn air-conditioner outdoor unit into deadly fire hazard
According to data from the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), it recorded 345 incidents involving air…
Scientists Tracked These Strange Arctic Icebergs and Found Something Unexpected on the Seafloor
A polar research expedition back in 2021 noticed something weird along the Fram Strait, a marine passage into…
Commission steps up action on EU bioeconomy
The European Commission is stepping up the implementation of the EU’s Bioeconomy Strategy by launching three complementary initiatives. …
A ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
Summary A mysterious cold patch in the North Atlantic has puzzled scientists for years. New research links the…
A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea | Waste
On an overcast June morning, I step from the rubber-sided Zodiac boat on to a floating barge at…
Green Loop: The Taranaki-based startup turning food waste into living soil
Green Loop founders Sophie Walker and Mieke Verschnoor say the the start-ups bins are replaced with clean ones…
The underwater wonders I saw on my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos | Environment
Darwin and Wolf Islands in the Galápagos archipelago are the kinds of places scuba divers and marine biologists…
The Hidden Infrastructure Challenge Behind Renewable Energy Growth
The Middle East crisis has spurred more interest in alternative energy supply, but the evolution of transition technology…
A single plastic water bottle takes about 450 years to decompose — meaning every bottle produced since the 1970s is still essentially intact somewhere on Earth, slowly breaking down into particles now found in Arctic ice, Pyrenees rainfall, and the sediments of the Mariana Trench
The plastic water bottle is one of the more recent inventions in the history of human packaging. The…