Attenborough warns leaders are in denial regarding climate change
World leaders are in denial about the dangers posed by climate change, despite compelling evidence about its risks, warns English broadcaster and naturalist Sir...
Lettuce on Mars project shortlisted for 2018 mission
Lettuce on Mars, a project by University of Southampton students to send a small greenhouse to Mars in which lettuce would be grown using...
Snowy owl population rises in Canada and United States
Snowy owls have flown south for the winter season from the arctic in larger numbers for the second successive year. A successful breeding season...
Rising seas will destroy nearly 7,000 properties within 100 years, UK
Up to 7,000 houses in the UK worth more than £1bn will be destroyed within the next 100 years due to rising seas, says a...
Lynx should be reintroduced to Scotland, says Scottish Wildlife Trust
The Scottish Wildlife Trust would like to see the once native Eurasian lynx reintroduced to Scotland, for both moral and ecological reasons. The lynx...
Monarch butterfly could be added to endangered species list
The monarch butterfly could be considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act after various conservation groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Mayan demise caused by severe droughts, says study
Researchers have studied minerals extracted from a Belize underwater water cave, the Blue Hole, revealing that there was a severe drought between year 800...
Signatures submitted against California’s plastic bag ban
There are enough signatures for a referendum against California’s plastic bag ban, SB 270.
Several counties and cities in California have approved the prohibition of single-use...
TransCanada buys eighth solar facility from Canadian Solar
TransCanada Corporation announced on Monday that it has bought its eighth Ontario solar facility, the newly built Liskeard 1 facility, from Canadian Solar Solutions Inc....
NASA releases International Space Station mobile app
NASA has released a new mobile app for those interested in the hundreds of experiments that are conducted on the International Space Station.
It provides...