From BBC Published8 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Helen BriggsEnvironment correspondent A genetic mutation makes some Labradors and flat-coated retrievers constantly hungry while burning fewer calories, say scientists. This “double whammy” effect means…

“The heat at night was too much; we couldn’t sleep,” says Evanice Auxiliadora da Silva, a resident of Cuiabá, the capital of the state of Mato Grosso in west-central Brazil, as she recalls the numerous heat waves the city experienced…

From BBC Published56 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, New England Aquarium By Nadine YousifBBC News A gray whale was spotted off the coast of New England last week, marking a rare sighting for a species that…

Scientists say that nitrogen pollution from agriculture and human waste could dramatically worsen clean water scarcity by 2050, according to a groundbreaking study recently published in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers from Germany and the Netherlands modeled the impact of…

The term “field station” has an air of mystery, conjuring images of some tropical or icy outpost where scientists go to “do science.” And while it’s true that scientific research is the backbone of field stations, these places also provide…

PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Emergency workers and community firefighters battled isolated fires in Sumatra’s Riau province in late February as the onset of the region’s first dry season of 2024 sparked wildfires in some peatland areas. “The water source is pretty…

JAKARTA — Indonesia is developing a satellite constellation to beef up monitoring of its marine and fisheries resources with the maiden launch of a nanosatellite scheduled this July. That inaugural launch will place into orbit the first of 20 nanosatellites,…

It was supposed to be a major milestone, back in 2014, when hundreds of governments and companies came together to sign the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed at eliminating natural forest loss worldwide. But many of the declaration’s goals…

Regardless of what satellite images show, inhabitants who have illegally planted crops within the protected area told committee officials that they “take care of Curichi”, because each union member’s rice plots do not exceed three hectares. Behind their crops, a…

The vision “Our community, we want to envision an alternative economy that doesn’t exploit the region, that doesn’t use our people as cheap labor, that doesn’t pollute the environment, that doesn’t accelerate climate change.” Bekah Hinojosa, an organizer in Brownsville,…