UK forecasts 'biggest' El Nino will smash records, spark hottest year
Channel News Asiaby CNA·3d ago
LONDON: This year's El Nino weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century and could make 2027 the hottest year globally, Britain's national weather agency predicted Friday (Aug 21).
What to do when wildfires trigger trauma
DW Englishby Jeannette Cwienk·3d ago
This year, wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average from 2006 to 2025 in Germany.
‘The Sun was dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months’ – what we can learn from worst volcanic eruptions in history
The Conversation UKby Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University·3d ago
Europe was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years AD536 and AD1258, after massive volcanic eruptions.
The world’s biggest trees could hold the secret to coping with drought
The Conversation UKby Amy Bennett, Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds·3d ago
Rising more than 70 metres above the rainforest canopy, a giant skyscraper of a tropical tree can seem almost invincible. Some have survived centuries of storms, droughts and competition.
Indian tycoon's giant Vantara zoo announces 'reset', rethinks imports
Channel News Asiaby CNA·3d ago
NEW DELHI: India's vast Vantara zoo, which calls itself the world's largest animal rescue centre, has announced a major reset under the former head of a global wildlife watchdog following sharp...
Trump says he’ll flood US market with beef as steak prices skyrocket
The Independentby Andrew Feinberg·3d ago
President Donald Trump is claiming to have struck a deal to flood the U.S. market with as much as 300,000 tons of beef imported from abroad and sold under price controls in a bid to lower prices...
Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup·3d ago
- Seabirds are the most threatened group of birds, with more than 30% at risk of extinction. Migratory seabirds are especially vulnerable.
Better demand could save indigenous fruits from being forgotten
Mongabay Indiaby Arathimenon·3d ago
- Indigenous fruits are disappearing from local landscapes and diets, driven by urbanisation, land-use change, changing food preferences and the growing cultivation of commercially profitable...
Punjab may need 15 vehicle scrapping facilities for 3 lakh vehicles
New Indian Expressby Harpreet Bajwa·3d ago
CHANDIGARH: Punjab has approximately 3 lakh vehicles that may qualify for scrapping, for which the state requires 15 operational registered vehicle scrapping facilities (RVSFs), according to a...
Best pics of nature - as taken in British zoos, aquariums and reserves
Mail Onlineby Caitlin Leng·3d ago
- Get your news delivered straight to you by 7am - sign up to our new Morning Mail newsletter for FREE - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source The best wildlife pictures of...
Saudel intensifies into severe tropical storm outside PAR
Rapplerby Acor Arceo·3d ago
AT A GLANCE - Saudel intensified into a severe tropical storm outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Friday, August 21.
Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna
Yale E360by Ted Williams·3d ago
On the arid African savanna, grasses are growing faster than they were a generation ago, boosted by rising levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
Southern states raise water disputes, delimitation concerns with Amit Shah
The News Minuteby TNM Staff·3d ago
Long-running inter-state water disputes dominated the Southern Zonal Council meeting held in Mahabalipuram on Thursday, August 20, with southern states presenting their concerns before Union Home...
How Scientists Are Fighting Food Waste with Phages, Silk, and More - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza·3d ago
Mariella Cariaga in The Scientist: In today’s world, food hunger and insecurity are not due to lack of food.
Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent
The Conversation (US)by Kim S. Bernard, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Oregon State University·3d ago
The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end.
The boy raised by wolves for 12 'beautiful years' passes away aged 80
Mail Onlineby Sabrina Penty·3d ago
- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source In 1965, as they scoured the vast Sierra Morena mountain range, members of the Civil Guard made an unlikely discovery.
Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures
Environment | The Guardianby All photographs by Ian Guerra in Carajás, Brazil·3d ago
Brazil’s vast iron mine that supplies the world and fractures the Amazon – in pictures The Grand Carajás project has made the country a mining superpower, but communities living in its shadow face...
California’s Drought Irreversibly Damaged Sacramento Valley Aquifers - Eos
Eosby Grace van Deelen·3d ago
Want updates from a trusted source about how scientists monitor groundwater and drought? Preference Eos in your searches!
Recycling food waste has a huge climate upside and a surprising downside.
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce·3d ago
If all food waste in the US found a second life as biogas and compost, this would almost completely offset its climate impact.
Here’s how climate change makes inflation worse | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Ryan M. Katz-Rosene and James Jackson·3d ago
If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer explaining how oil — the lifeblood of the global economy — is currently facing supply bottlenecks in...
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