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April 4th, 2025 08:49:54 EDT -0400 Chance of asteroid hitting Moon increases slightly Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth but now has a 3.8% chance of striking the Moon. |
April 2nd, 2025 14:00:07 EDT -0400 Alcohol makes male fruit flies more attractive Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females. |
April 2nd, 2025 01:06:12 EDT -0400 Environment Agency orders review into tyre recycling after BBC probe Environment Agency review waste tyre exports after BBC probe reveals millions sent to furnaces in India. |
March 31st, 2025 01:02:29 EDT -0400 Record number of illegal sewage spills in Windermere last year Campaigners identified 140 illegal spill days into the beauty spot in 2024 |
March 30th, 2025 21:39:10 EDT -0400 The Swedish city fined for missing an environmental target Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals. |
March 28th, 2025 08:00:25 EDT -0400 How to watch Saturday's partial solar eclipse Parts of the UK with clear skies will see the Moon take a "bite" out of the Sun on Saturday morning. |
March 29th, 2025 06:56:23 EDT -0400 Has Just Stop Oil really stopped throwing soup? Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests? |
March 25th, 2025 11:26:27 EDT -0400 Unique two-clawed dinosaur discovered Duonychus is one of the few species of theropod dinosaur that evolved two-fingered hands. |
March 24th, 2025 21:41:32 EDT -0400 Archaeologists find 'unprecedented' Iron Age hoard Archaeologists say they have found more than 800 items dating back about 2,000 years. |
March 20th, 2025 22:26:22 EDT -0400 Schools and hospitals get £180m solar investment The government has announced the funding for 200 schools and hospitals apiece across the UK. |
March 19th, 2025 17:59:12 EDT -0400 Dark Energy experiment challenges Einstein's theory of Universe New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time. |
March 18th, 2025 05:03:34 EDT -0400 Scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station. |
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April 4th, 2025 06:48:00 EDT -0400 AI Model Can Predict When Lightning Will Spark Wildfires Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict with 90 percent accuracy when and where lightning will ignite wildfires. |
April 2nd, 2025 13:03:00 EDT -0400 Recycling Nuclear Waste: A Win-Win or a Dangerous Gamble? As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its untapped energy to power reactors. Advocates tout new recycling methods as a breakthrough, but many experts warn it will extract plutonium that could be used for nuclear weapons. |
April 2nd, 2025 06:15:00 EDT -0400 Toxic Algae Spurs Sea Lion Attacks in Southern California A sea lion sickened by toxic algae attacked a teenage girl in Long Beach, California, on Sunday, the latest episode of erratic behavior from affected animals. |
April 1st, 2025 06:02:00 EDT -0400 Global Economy More Vulnerable to Warming Than Previously Thought A new study finds warming could inflict far more damage to the global economy than previously assumed. |
March 31st, 2025 07:09:00 EDT -0400 In a Warming World, Why Is the Southern Ocean Getting Cooler? Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the waters around Antarctica have grown mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why. |
March 28th, 2025 09:11:00 EDT -0400 Despite Ukraine War, Europe Imported Even More Russian Gas Last Year The EU is getting further from its goal of weaning off Russian fossil fuels by 2027. Imports of Russian gas rose by 18 percent last year, a new analysis finds. |
March 26th, 2025 13:26:00 EDT -0400 In War-Torn Sudan, a Gold Mining Boom Takes a Human Toll As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions. Most of the mining is done on a small scale by villagers who process the gold using mercury and cyanide, posing serious threats to their health and to the environment. |
March 26th, 2025 08:50:00 EDT -0400 Renewables Made Up More Than 90 Percent of New Power Installed Globally Last Year Renewables accounted for 92 percent of new power capacity worldwide last year, a new report shows. |
March 24th, 2025 12:17:00 EDT -0400 With NOAA Cuts, a Proud Legacy and Vital Science Are at Risk For more than 50 years, NOAA has pioneered climate research and been instrumental in advancing modern weather forecasting. Now labeled by Project 2025 as part of the “climate alarm industry” and facing DOGE-driven cuts, the future of this valuable public asset is in jeopardy. |
March 24th, 2025 09:46:00 EDT -0400 Retreating Arctic Glaciers Have Exposed 1,500 Miles of Coastline Since 2000, the melting of Arctic glaciers has exposed some 1,500 miles of coastline, a study finds. |
March 20th, 2025 15:22:00 EDT -0400 Peatland Algae to Soak Up More Carbon as Planet Warms New research finds that microalgae in northern peat bogs will absorb more carbon dioxide as the planet warms, helping to take a bite out of emissions. |
March 19th, 2025 11:55:00 EDT -0400 Imperiled in the Wild, Many Plants May Survive Only in Gardens As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists are racing to preserve endangered plant species in botanical garden “metacollections” in the hope of eventually returning them to the wild. But what happens when there is no suitable habitat to return them to? |