Low levels of environmental pollutants may slow fetal growth
Even when women had low blood levels of these pollutants, which include substances such as DDT and PCBs, babies' growth in utero was impacted, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
We broke down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts
By Clayton Aldern and Emily Pontecorvo
As this hottest-on-record, godforsaken decade draws to a close, it's clear that global warming is no longer a problem for future generations but one that's already displacing communities, costing billions, and driving mass extinctions. And…
Britain could be set to become even colder due to climate change and global warming
It's feared that climate change will make hot countries totally uninhabitable. But global warming could end up having the ironic effect of making the weather in Britain and north-western Europe even colder.
California will require solar panels on all new homes. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Solar in the city. | David McNew/Getty Images More solar is not always and everywhere better. Update, December 31: On January 1, 2020, California's residential solar mandate will go into effect. Here's our explainer, first…
A Call to Action as Planet's Essential Groundwater Is Being Rapidly Depleted
Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and non-governmental organizations to "act now" to ensure global groundwater sustainability.NoneIn their 'Call To Action', the…
Australia's Antarctic gateway Tasmania gets hotter than tropical north
Temperatures soared on Monday in Australia's normally icy cool state of Tasmania, the country's closest point to the South Pole, reaching more than double the summer average with hot air blowing in from a scorching…
Greta Thunberg: 'I wouldn't have wasted my time' talking to Trump about climate change
"He's not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?" Greta Thunberg says of Donald Trump.
Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan on the Greenhouse Effect
The CAES for Energy Storage
Compressed Air Energy Storage. Engineers have some new ideas to make it work.
Killer Vegans: Women Soldiers defend Wildlife Against Poachers
Enviro News: The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) has recruited women to protect the world's natural heritage along Africa's Zambezi River. The Akashinga, or "Brave Ones," is a privately-funded, highly-trained, vegan group of local women from extremely disadvantaged…