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The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-F

Program founded by tomato growers has some of the strongest US worker protections – and its approach is being emulated by other groups“It’s the kind of heat that makes you feel like you’re being dehydrated, like your skin is drying out,” said Lucas Benitez, after harvesting water

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity. Atrazine is the second-most widely used weed killer in the U.S. after glyphosate, wh

On a misty and breezy morning last fall, Marc Hamric, a North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries veteran, and two other technicians were conducting field work in Turnagain Bay, a remote area near Cedar Island. They had brought their boat ashore, but because the water was so ro

On July 22, Aurélie Filleau and her husband were given 10 minutes to get their children and a few possessions into the car before evacuating their house in Le Porge, a town near Bordeaux, France.  The family managed to bring their dog but left behind two cats and a parrot. “I wan

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with veteran Maine journalist Kevin Miller. The closely watched race for U.S. Senate in Maine is pitting two environmentally concerned candidates again

Record-high temperatures in September encompassed the largest area of the globe for any month since records began.

The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and heat risks, while budget cuts have weakened disaster response agencies• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereBefore this year, the US National Wea

Devastating blaze near Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk among a record 624 wildfires in July this yearThis July was the worst on record for wildfires in England, provisional data shows, with England experiencing a clear upward trend in the total number of wildfires rec

As well as books, the new facility in Colorado offers equipment to help connect people with the natural world. We asked five of the first visitors what they thought of itMark Fink knows exactly why he opened the first public nature library in the US. “There are a lot of barriers

Today, Tami McGraw runs a Facebook support group for others with her condition.

As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides• Heavy metals make Norwegian village’s tap water toxicOn a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in

The Indigenous Earth Fund recently awarded $1 million to Native-led projects that aim to restore the planet.

This foolish decision undermines hopes that this government will take the necessary steps the climate crisis demands When the news broke that the UK government had approved the Jackdaw gasfield, I was at a Guardian climate event at the Royal Geographical Society. Appropriately,

A surge in wholesale costs driven by expensive gas is responsible for nearly 90% of the rise in UK household… The post Revealed: Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills appeared first on Carbon Brief.

The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.

At a gathering in Texas, near where floods killed 136 people last year, survivors are united on the need for urgent actionIt may be a club none of its members actually want to be in, but the growing number of people in the US affected by extreme weather disasters are starting to

After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.

Over the past year, boats have plied the waters around Hinkley Point C, a nuclear power plant under construction along England’s Somerset coast, laying and testing a network of ultrasonic speakers across the seabed. This technology, set to drive fish away from the plant’s deadly

FOLKSTON, Ga.—This quiet town of about 4,800 people has a humble Southern charm. Its low-slung storefronts, historic buildings and broad, quiet streets give it the feel of a place where time moves a little slower. At a viewing platform beside railroad tracks that pass a few yards

Extreme weather threatens millions of manufactured homes. Researchers are looking for practical ways to make them more more wind resilient.

Tribal nations across the country are trying to restore culturally important species, like the Arctic grayling, while grappling with climate change.

Critics say move will jeopardise climate targets, fail to cut cost of living and distract from need to decarbonise energyClimate campaigners and green experts have condemned the government’s decision to allow the drilling of the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea.They said approva