Animals How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct May 7, 2021 - Updated on May 15, 2021
Environment Off to a rocky start: Deep-sea mining robot got stranded in the ocean during trials April 30, 2021
Environment Goodbye, pesticides? This new robot can kill 100,000 weeds per hour using lasers April 27, 2021
Environment If we want to reduce global inequality, we could learn a thing or two from Mario Kart April 10, 2021
Environment No longer wasted off beer: Beer byproducts could be used for biofuels and food April 7, 2021
Environment Reading this? The odds are your consumer habits are causing the loss of 4 trees per year March 30, 2021
Environment Dump the plastic: Scientists create edible food packaging films from seaweed March 24, 2021
Environment Clean energy, high yields: greenhouse plants grow just fine with semi-transparent solar cells March 23, 2021
Environmental Issues A new approach to cleaning space junk is being tested in space right now March 22, 2021 - Updated on November 12, 2021
Environment The pandemic has dealt a big blow to nature conservation March 12, 2021 - Updated on February 17, 2023
Environment Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation March 5, 2021 - Updated on July 22, 2022
Environment Over half of all the rivers in the world have been heavily impacted by humans February 26, 2021
Environmental Issues Pirate attacks are more frequent in areas with harmful fishing practices February 24, 2021
Animals Sawfish could soon become completely extinct if we don’t stop overfishing, says a study February 11, 2021
Environment Almost half of the global waste is not collected properly — and much of it is burned January 11, 2021
Environment Trump auctions Arctic refuge to oil companies in last bid against the environment January 7, 2021 - Updated on January 8, 2021
Biology Climate change is turning the Eastern Mediterranean into a completely new ecosystem January 6, 2021
Environment Remember Chernobyl? A new waterway could bring nuclear runoff back to the surface December 24, 2020
Environmental Issues Large ecosystems collapse “over ‘human’ timescales”, a new paper reports December 23, 2020 - Updated on June 11, 2023
Environment Rivers can change colors as time passes, and this is linked to ecosystem health December 22, 2020
Environment Giant iceberg A-68a scrapes seafloor and breaks into two. Its current trajectory is unknown December 21, 2020
Climate Wildfire smoke can carry microbes that cause infectious diseases, researchers find December 18, 2020
Environment European rivers are fragmented by over one million barriers December 16, 2020 - Updated on December 18, 2020
Environment Denmark just opened a huge vertical farm, and it could be a sign of things to come globally December 11, 2020 - Updated on December 13, 2020
Environment Better make room: Man-made stuff now outweighs all other living things on Earth December 11, 2020
Environment It’s Erin Brockovich all over again: rusty iron pipes are exposing us to cancer-causing chemical December 4, 2020
Environment Electronic waste is on the decline in the US, but it’s only because TVs are getting smaller December 3, 2020
Environment Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon breaks 12-year record, as administration focuses on industry December 1, 2020
Environment Scientists compile the world’s largest inventory of known plant species November 26, 2020