BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will ban imports of 432 types of scrap electronics within six months, an environment ministry official said on Thursday, the latest country to respond to China’s crackdown on imports of high-tech trash this year. Southeast Asia…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The drought sweeping through large tracts of Australia is set to intensify over the next three months and is fuelling unseasonal winter bushfires, the leading meteorological agency and a fire official said on Thursday. The Bureau of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas environment regulators should coordinate shutdowns of oil refineries and other petrochemical plants during major storms to avoid big releases of air pollution like during last year’s Hurricane Harvey, a report said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: An…

(Reuters) - Researchers in Canada playing detective with the yellow-banded bumblebee’s genome have found evidence that inbreeding and disease are the likely reasons for the decline of the species, York University’s Associate Professor Amro Zayed told Reuters. A yellow-banded bumblebee…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday ordered the U.S. State Department to do a full environmental review of a revised route for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, a move that could delay the project and…

(Reuters) - Scientists in Florida are on the cusp of developing promising methods to control toxic algae blooms like the “red tide” that has been killing marine life along a 150-mile (240-km) stretch of the Gulf Coast, the head of…

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s Samarco Mineração SA expects to pay up to 2 billion reais ($512.5 million) this year to 19,000 families affected by the 2015 mining disaster in the state of Minas Gerais, the foundation created to pay…

From NPR As summer draws to a close, conservationists are getting ready for the annual Monarch butterfly migration. One scientist thinks the best way to help the migration is to create more Monarch habitats in big cities. Read the full…

From NPR In Montana, the Howe Ridge Fire has burned nearly all the cabins at Kelly’s Camp which is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full article from NPR