From BBC Israel is about to launch its first attempt to land on the Moon. The Beresheet robot is a privately funded venture that aims to land and hop across…
From BBC A Japanese spacecraft is set to “bite an asteroid” as it descends to collect a sample of rock from the surface. The Hayabusa-2 probe will try to grab…
Imported coal is seen lifted by cranes from a coal cargo ship onto a truck at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China July 26, 2018. Picture taken July 26,…
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday set up hundreds of traps around the country’s largest city of Auckland after finding a second Queensland fruit fly, a species that poses…
From BBC Greenhouse gas emissions from your heating boiler are fuelling climate change, a report by MPs has said. UK government advisers warn that emissions from housing have actually gone…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The world’s biggest undeveloped gold and copper mining project, planned in southwestern Alaska near the largest fishery for sockeye salmon globally, moved a step closer to…
(Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Pennsylvania boys and an environmental group seeking to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from rolling back regulations addressing climate…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A winter storm bore down on the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, threatening to snarl New York City’s evening commute after hindering air travel along the…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 struck near the town of Canakkale on the Western coast of Turkey on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is readying a presidential panel that would question U.S. military and intelligence reports showing human-driven climate change poses risks to national security, according to…