The cancellation of a series of cross-country running races in West Yorkshire because of coronavirus has apparently saved hundreds of migrating toads from being...
The president-elect plans to reduce incentives for fracking, but has stopped short of a banThe result of the US election has cast a long shadow across the US shale heartlands. Joe Biden wants to make the climate crisis his top priority,...
Wildfires in Ukraine have spread to just over a mile from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and a disposal site for radioactive waste, according to activists, as more than 300 firefighters work to contain the blaze.
A video posted by a...
As a society, we are converting more and more land to food production, with massive consequences for wildlife, water and forests. Yet one third of all food produced is thrown away and food waste is responsible for a staggering 8% of...
Causes of death yet to be confirmed as witness describes last moments of one dolphinAt least 40 dolphins have died mysteriously in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses have said, as...
The TV comes over the garden wall first, in a graceful arc, rolling twice before coming to a stop, the screen miraculously unsmashed. Next come a tyre, a door frame, a drawer, miscellaneous pieces of wood and bits of hoarding.
A young...
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US senators have called for pork producers to be given financial assistance to ensure the "humane euthanization and disposal" of up to 7 million pigs that could be left on-farm due to the high number of meat...
Due to the switch to winter time in the upcoming holidays 2425 October in Europe trade hours for some instruments are subject to change in. These are EET time ASX200 0105730 and 8152200 DAX30 02152300 EuroStoxx50 02152300 DOWJONES30, NASDAQ100, SP500 00052215...
One of the world's biggest gliding mammals, Australia's once-common and unique greater glider, actually comprises three separate species, according to new genetic research.Researchers said the findings should prompt urgent work to better understand the three species which are under pressure from...
Bitcoin breaks $34K, Ethereum eclipses $1K, and Litecoin taps $170 as the cryptoasset market welcomes the new year
While traditional markets were sleeping, Bitcoin welcomed the new...
The wrecks protrude from the water on both sides of the causeway: the ruins of steamships, intentionally sunk in the narrow straits between small islands during...
Today people all around Brazil celebrate Father's Day - the day dedicated to the fathers who are always there, the silent protectors and guardians of their...
Supporters of the ANC and its leader, Nelson Mandela, put up burning barricades in Thokoza township, south of Johannesburg, amid gun battles with rival...
Rocky shorelines and weathered saltbox homes dot the landscape of South Thomaston on the coast of Maine. Lobster traps take up frontyard real estate...
Automation is revolutionising China’s pork farms but leaving independent farmers behindA slender snout. Shapely, upright ears. Like humans, pigs have idiosyncratic faces, and new...
Dear Traders,You may recall that on March 17, TenkoFX increased margin requirements by up to 5 times their normal level for currency pairs, indices,...
Global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015The number of wild bee species recorded by an international database of life on Earth has declined by a quarter...
Consultation comes after the birds have been successfully rewilded in other parts of the UKA consultation has been launched to reintroduce Britain’s biggest bird of prey to Norfolk in an unprecedented rewilding move led by...
Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption thanks to...
Significance of changes are unclear and could reflect various ways in which humans are impacting the environment Rivers may seem like immutable features of the landscape but they are in fact changing color over time,...
Environment secretary says water companies too reliant on overflows discharging pollution after stormsThe environment secretary, George Eustice, has made a commitment to reducing releases of raw sewage by water companies into rivers and coastal waters....
TV presenter says government is reneging on Brexit green pledges by breaking with EU banChris Packham, the naturalist and TV presenter, has accused the government of sending “shivers of fear” through Britain’s environmentalists by backtracking...
First post-Brexit audit finds of the top 10 UK stocks, only three are in ‘a healthy state’Only a third of the UK’s key fish populations are in a healthy state, and catches of key species...
Abbeydale, Sheffield: Smaller birds are busy despite the snow, helping themselves to the emergency supplies hanging from the cherry treeSnow began falling as I looked from my window, and “the room”, as the Irish poet...
"You convince yourself that there is no danger," Ron Taylor once said of how he captured his groundbreaking underwater footage of sharks. And afterwards,...
Samuel Gilbert visited four distinct wilderness areas near the new border wall, which is fragmenting protected habitats and threatening endangered species In the 1980s,...
Indonesia’s Citarum is relied upon by millions, but decades of pollution have choked it with chemicals and rubbishWords and pictures by Andrea Carrubba in...
Biotech companies and pharmaceutical giants around the world work together to develop and manufacture a vaccine for COVID-19 that left more than 4 million...