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When the surge of plug-in vehicles hits the streets over the next few years, how will our electricity grids cope?
Ancient waterways buried beneath Australia's Simpson desert have been traced – even though massive dunes make remote sensing impossible
In three states, alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming must be taught – and there seem to be links to efforts to teach creationism
Rats have long wreaked bloody devastation in the wildlife haven of South Georgia – now conservationists are planning brutal retaliation
A new material based on nanotubes matches the efficiency of solar cells – but scavenges power from heat leaking from hot pipes, not sunlight
A previously unrecognised molecule, similar to a type found in meteorites, may have helped the first biomolecules assemble from their building blocks
New plant in Scotland will have to prove that carbon capture technology worksThe first application to build a coal plant in Britain since energy secretary Ed Miliband introduced...
General election manifesto to encourage creation of community co-ops for getting good deals on insulation and solar panelsHome owners will be encouraged to club together to negotiate...
Our tariff plan is near-identical to Germany's – that's the one that produced woeful amounts of energy, jobs and innovationJeremy Leggett: I accept George Monbiot's £100 solar...
• Lobby consists of 90 academics, politicians and experts• Claim appropriate information has not been made availablePressure on the government to organise an independent inquiry...
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of 50 years of oil extraction in the Niger delta
RenewableUK says inconsistencies in tariff favour solar panels, which takes microgeneration business out of UKUK small wind turbine manufacturers say they will lose out to foreign...
After the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, it is not surprising to see countries are updating their disaster contingency plans. As part of these plans, a range of different...
Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors,...
One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s early projects was Documerica, an effort "to photograph America’s environmental problems" from 1971 to 1977...
Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.
MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.
For those who have misguidedly failed to develop an Armageddon plan, it's not too late. Here are the 6 phases you would probably go through if you were the only human left on Earth.
48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.
The cost of the flooding in Cumbria has broken through the £200 million barrier, an insurance trade body said.
British rescuers are packing up and heading home from devastated Haiti, saying it would be an "absolute miracle" if anyone else was found alive in the ruins.
Haiti's government has said it will move 400,000 people made homeless by the devastating earthquake from the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts.
The "breathtaking" Giant's Causeway has been awarded a £3 million grant to help create new facilities for visitors, the Heritage Lottery Fund has announced.
Hundreds of invasive species are posing one of the greatest threats to wildlife across the world, conservationists have warned.
Fewer but more ferocious and destructive hurricanes are likely to occur in the next century as a result of global warming, a new climate study suggests.
Parts of Britain are on flood alert as heavy rain and melting snow combined to create the latest weather hazard.
A type of degradable plastic bag that was supposed to be better for the environment may not be completely biodegradable, a Government-commissioned study has found...
The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than local waters...
Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option...
The Islands of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre...
As the dust settles after what appeared to be a failed climate change convention in Copenhagen, leaders, delegates and experts have gone back to the drawing board to look at what...
A project aims to discover more about the life and pressures on the sewin or sea trout in Wales and Ireland.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan watered down legislation to fight climate change Thursday after weeks of wrangling within the government over plans for an emissions trading system that...
In case you’ve been under a rock, the big news on the street is the incredible new Heinz Ketchup Packet which will apparently revolutionize french fry enjoyment for the 21st...
When there is a large earthquake, it basically means that a major geological stress was released. When that happens the earth will literally move. It may not be as dramatic as...
An old proverb states that to stay young is to keep alert and active or: "An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
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At long last, Google Maps has routes specifically for bikes.
With the click of a mouse, the new feature...
Garlic is known in legend as great against vampires and it is quite nice in many delicious recipes. Researchers have now designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure...
Covering about 70 percent of our planet's surface, the ocean acts as a global thermostat, storing energy from the sun, keeping Earth's temperature changes moderate and keeping...
The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and endocrine system of vertebrates. It is both an endocrine gland producing several important hormones, including insulin, and somatostatin,...
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