Foreign fishermen caught in Torres Strait sentenced in Darwin
The first foreign fishermen caught illegally in Far North Queensland waters under a new Commonwealth border operation have…
How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate
Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be…
Earth’s days are getting longer. Climate change is to blame
March 13, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Earth’s spin is slowing at an unprecedented…
More than 2,500 invasive species are poised to conquer the Arctic as the ice disappears
A new Arctic-wide analysis has identified thousands of plant species from outside the region that could survive in…
We must protect our natural habitats before they disappear | Environment
In his article on nature protections (How can we really protect Britain’s environment?, 8 March), Sam Dumitriu of…
Falling Energy Per Capita Is the World’s Biggest Problem
A few years ago, I analyzed the growth of world energy consumption, breaking it down into (a) the growth in…
Kazakhstan Mirrors Russia With Vehicle Recycling Fee Increase
Kazakhstan plans to increase the recycling fee for vehicles imported from Russia after officials in Moscow followed through…
Five reasons why attacking the EU carbon market is economic self-sabotage
The last few weeks have witnessed mounting attacks on the European Union’s key climate policy instrument: the emissions…
The Urgent Need for Policy and Industrial Recycling
Across Africa, waste tyres are an urban environmental burden that are quite hard to miss. These wastes sit…
The race for Paris: Will more armed police and more cameras make the city safer?
Is it safe to walk the streets of Paris? Fewer and fewer Parisians certainly seem to think so.…
Nature responds to climate change in surprising ways, and German forests are proof of this
Over more than two decades, forest soils in south‑west Germany have started acting like a slightly more powerful…
This Creature Could Be the Last Species to Go Extinct on Earth
On a bad day for the planet, the first signs would look ordinary at first. A bright streak…