The global coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold at a staggering pace, decimating lives, livelihoods and the normal functioning of society, as well as interrupting energy demand and CO2 emissions.
Foote’s ingenious experiment more than 150 years ago yielded a remarkable discovery that could have helped shape modern climate science had she not been overshadowed.
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there.
Antibodies from Winter, a 4-year-old llama with great eyelashes, have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments.
Numbers now reflect that the coronavirus may be past its peak in several U.S. states, but the question as to how to prevent future pandemics remains.
The U.S. has fared worse than other countries not because it lacked information or funding but because it failed to learn the lessons of the last outbreaks.
US government vets said to be ready to assist with culls, or ‘depopulation’ of pigs, chickens and cattle because of coronavirus meat plant closures.
Plants that don't treat animals well often don't treat workers well.
The churches all closed. Jets flying overhead. Lunatics banging pots and pans.
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change.
The public health threat isn’t a foreign enemy. It’s here, too.
Van Beek and other farmers say they have no choice but to cull livestock as they run short on space to house their animals or money to feed them, or both.
Atmospheric currents are transporting plastic pollution into remote, pristine areas, showing the global nature of the problem
Public health experts and elected officials have emphasized again and again that social distancing is the best tool we have to slow the coronavirus outbreak.
Several countries around the world are emitting less carbon due to the pandemic slowdown, but the climate will continue to warm.
As humanity retreats into quarantine, the internet is overgrowing with tales of a revived natural world.
Coronavirus can survive on common materials for hours or even days. Here's what you need to know and how to protect yourself.
The United Kingdom’s last plutonium reprocessing plant, B205, located in Sellafield in northern England, will shut down by the end of 2020.
The island nation chose strict lockdowns and austerity. What’s next?
President Trump is directing federal agencies to bypass requirements of some of the country's most significant environmental laws.
Stop deforestation by supporting companies that take an active role against it.
Only one species is responsible for coronavirus – humans – say world’s leading wildlife experts.
After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president promised to undo.
The CEOs, oilmen, financiers, politicians, and ideologues who are robbing us of a stable climate.
The iconic Doomsday Clock symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in 1947.
Scientists reveal 1 million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report.
