Shane Jones shuns UN bottom trawling meeting, blasting global ‘talk fests’
New Zealand will play a pre-recorded video at a United Nations workshop on the impacts bottom fishing has…
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mass extinction Earth has ever known
The end-Permian extinction was not a single volcano exploding on one bad day. It was a long volcanic…
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes: the first came as the planet cooled, glaciers spread and sea levels collapsed; then the ice retreated, the seas warmed and lost their oxygen, killing many of the species that had survived the cold
The Late Ordovician extinction, close to the Ordovician-Silurian boundary about 443 million years ago, is usually read as…
Scientists Are Testing a New Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live on the Ocean Floor
The ocean covers 71% of the planet, and humans have colonized only a small fraction of it. That…
British couple named among 13 killed in Spanish wildfires | Wildfires
A British couple have been named among the 13 people killed by wildfires in Spain, as authorities race…
Dolphin deaths in South Australia spike after algal bloom decimates food sources | Marine life
The number of dead dolphins washing up on South Australian beaches spiked in 2025, according to long-term data…
Over 200 people at a Missouri camp helicoptered to safety amid floods
One person remained missing in Missouri after heavy rainfall battered parts of the state the previous day, forcing…
‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water | Puerto Rico
Jonathan Collazo owns two restaurants in a bustling section of San Juan, which has been plagued by water…
EV battery recycling has a math problem : NPR
Chris McQuiggen and Archie Brewton of Everett Auto Parts strap two Chevy Volt batteries to a pallet in…
First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery | Water
From the village of Copapayo, Noel Avalos recalls the morning they ran to the shore of Lake Suchitlán,…
Ocean warming has been shrinking marine animals for 450 million years, massive study reveals |
Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study…
40 groups contest move to dilute environmental oversight of big projects
Some 40 environmental, health, and other civil society organizations appealed to the Interior Ministry and the National Planning…