Fracking chemicals and kids' brains don’t mix: Study.
Multiple pollutants found in the air and water near fracked oil and gas sites are linked to brain problems in children, according to a...
Nature is one of the most under-appreciated tools for reigning in carbon.
A new study shows that better global land stewardship—conserving and restoring wild habitats and practicing more sustainable farming—could get us more than one-third of the...
Oceans could offer a wind-powered world.
Deep-water turbines could make a wind-powered world possible, scientists say, generating all the energy human civilisation uses today.
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Food ruined by drought could feed more than 80m a day, says World Bank.
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Bank calls for water to be treated as valuable resource as study into impact details lack of water’s devastating lifelong scars on children
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Risings seas are flooding Virginia’s naval base, and there’s no plan to fix it.
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NORFOLK, Virginia—The one-story brick firehouse at Naval Station Norfolk sits pinched between a tidal inlet and Willoughby...
As climate changes, Boston weighs strategies for staying dry.
October 24, 2017 — As this year’s hurricanes marched across the Caribbean into the Gulf Coast or out to the North Atlantic, cities along...
Deforestation linked to palm oil production is making Indonesia warmer, study finds
In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New...
Determining when humans started impacting the planet on a large scale
Humans have so profoundly altered the Earth that, some scientists argue, our current geologic epoch requires a new name: the Anthropocene. But defining the...
Some infant rice cereals contain elevated levels of methylmercury
Eating large amounts of certain fish can expose consumers to methylmercury, which can potentially cause health problems. But recent research has shown that rice...
Novel nanoparticle to remove cadmium from freshwater
Researchers have tested the capability of a novel nanoparticle to remove cadmium toxicity from a freshwater system.
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