Nature No Longer Smells So Natural—and That’s Our Fault – Mother Jones
A sunflower grow near a coal-fired power plant in Niederaussem, Germany.Bernd Lauter via Getty Get your news from…
Decision due over plans for new Norfolk recycling centre
Norfolk County Council’s plans to move Sheringham Recycling Centre had been on hold because of a legal fight…
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean has puzzled scientists
In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something…
Melting icebergs are dropping rocks onto the Arctic seafloor, and those stones are turning into deep-sea homes for marine life as climate change quietly redraws where life can live
Climate change usually means trouble, but a new discovery is flipping the script for some marine life. Melting…
Former WA potato farm transformed into wetland sanctuary for rare and endangered birds
As you look out across the expansive Eungedup Wetlands, there is little evidence of its previous life as…
Water pollution – BBC
On Morning Live on Friday 12th June, consumer expert Holly Hamilton discussed the pollution affecting the UK’s rivers,…
America’s top 10 dirtiest cities revealed
Here’s the dirt on America. A survey conducted last year revealed the US cities with the worst pollution,…
West Antarctic winter ice fails to form in Bellingshausen Sea in area ‘size of France’
Scientists say a region on the west side of Antarctica is missing a large chunk of winter sea…
Why sustainable alternatives to plastic are struggling to compete
Only 10 per cent of all plastics produced are recycled, so most plastics will end up littering streets, entering…
A 550-million-year-old fossil found along the Yangtze River may explain why Earth’s earliest animals left almost no trace
If Earth’s history is an epic book, we have to get by without the first few chapters. The…
El Niño is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Niño, nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow…
New Solar Method Turns Ocean Into Drinking Water, While Extracting Valuable Lithium Without Waste
Vials of (left to right) seawater, salt water, nickel sulfate, copper chloride wastewater, and desalinated water with recovered…