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‘My classroom was 30C. No one was learning. Then I started to feel dizzy’ – This is climate breakdown
As a UK heatwave intensified in early summer this year, the health impacts began to worsen. This is Gill’s storyLocation: London, UKDisaster: UK heatwave, 2026Gill (not her real n…
Overlooked bushland remnants serve as 'stepping stones' for endangered Carnaby's cockatoos
New research from Murdoch University has revealed that Carnaby's cockatoos depend on small, fragmented patches of native vegetation to survive in heavily cleared landscapes—a find…
Finding new life in old chemicals for pharmaceuticals using light-driven chemistry
Drug companies maintain large libraries of chemical compounds that can be screened for potential use in the development of new pharmaceuticals. One class of these compounds, sulfo…
Deeper dives are linked to longer surface recovery in sea lions
Sea lions, marine mammals belonging to the eared seal family, have to dive to search for food and other resources. Between dives, however, they return to the surface to breathe an…
What time will SpaceX launch Starship Flight 15, its 1st double landing test, on Nov. 13? (Full mission timeline)
SpaceX will attempt to reach orbit with its Starship megarocket and make its first-ever double catch on Nov. 13. Here's what time Starship Flight 15 will launch.
A massive ship is being sunk off Florida to make an artificial reef
A ship bigger than the Titanic is being sunk off the coast of Florida to make an artificial reef.
Deep-sea mining could destroy unique habitats hidden inside metal-rich nodules
In the extreme depths of the Pacific Ocean, there are small, metal-bearing formations that are far more than just valuable sources of raw materials. A new study published in the j…
The Pace of Everglades Restoration Has Accelerated. But Is It Working?
A historic restoration of Florida’s Everglades is proceeding at an unprecedented pace, although more scientific analysis is needed to understand how the fragile watershed is respo…
The Trump Administration Praised a Georgia Manufacturer. Now It’s Suing the EPA.
In August 2025, Vice President JD Vance and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin visited cold storage equipment manufacturer Alta Refrigeration to announce pla…
Ed Miliband says national security of all countries at risk from climate crisis
Exclusive: UK foreign secretary to tell world leaders at Cop31 summit that sci-fi scenarios of destruction ‘now regular occurrences’Cop31 live – latest updatesUK politics live – l…
Cop31 live: World leaders to speak at climate crisis summit
Third day of UN talks begin but leaders of many big polluting nations absentAs day three of the UN climate summit kicks off, world leaders from dozens of countries are expected. B…
Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardiceThis is how it works. An industry puts tremendous effort …
APOD: 2026 November 11 – NGC 4449: Small Galaxy, Big Impact
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 11 – NGC… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the…
Water Surges Into Navajo Reservoir
Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.
Thousands of rare wildflowers rescued from eroding Scottish coast
Conservationists relocate 3,400 one-flowered wintergreens, a species estimated to have lost more than half its UK population in the past 50 yearsThousands of one of Britain’s rare…
Coyotes are likely a permanent fixture on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
A new study reveals that coyote populations on the Outer Banks persist despite ongoing removal programs, posing a continued threat to shore-nesting birds and protected sea turtles…
A new tool makes biodiversity conservation planning more efficient and reproducible
ZonationR is a new tool that simplifies the use of Zonation to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation. It brings all stages of the conservation planning analysis to…
Genetic ancestry plays a key role in the migration of Cory's shearwaters
To what extent do genes influence the migratory routes of birds? The factors that determine the long-distance migrations of seabirds are not yet fully understood. Now, a study pub…
Earliest known compact quasar pair poses a black hole growth puzzle
The oldest pair of compact quasars ever observed has been found only 900 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists say there is no theoretical explanation for how the pair of a…
New organic iron-sulfur framework boosts photosynthesis and carbon fixation
Iron-sulfur clusters are ancient protein cofactors that are essential for electron transport, enzyme catalysis and photosynthesis. However, their sensitivity to oxygen and inheren…
How ripples in space-time can reveal new exoplanets
The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) observatory, now in development, will detect gravitational waves, the tiny ripples in space-time caused by orbiting masses. Now two s…
European eels transmit a herpesvirus through bites, revealing another route for fish infections
Contrary to what was previously believed, viruses infecting fish are not transmitted exclusively through water acting as an abiotic vector. A team of researchers from the Universi…
Where AI can aid chemistry research and where reliability falls short
Researchers from the Skoltech AI Center, together with colleagues from the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ITMO University and other in…
Repurposing the internet's backbone to advance whale monitoring
Bioacoustics researcher Léa Bouffaut, at the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, has spent the past several years eavesdropping on the conversations of whal…