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By Peter Campion We Aussie climate sceptics are watching on in awe as the new US President begins systematically driving a stake a into the vampire heart of the climate-alarm industry.  It can be a challenge for the casual...

Whether you get an iced latte to-go in the morning, your restaurant leftovers in a plastic takeaway container, or forget to take a reusable bags to the store, there are numerous ways disposable plastic  adds up -  and...

Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's Orange Mountains. On a trip with his family, Sparks tripped over an object which he first thought was “just...

There's no worse feeling than sliding your hand along an escalator or Subway rail and realizing the number of germs you're picking up. While most bacteria are benign and, therefore, pose no threat to human health, the spread...

Carbon sequestration, or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it long-term, could help us fight climate change. It's a complex chemical reaction, but a team of six scientists led by the California Institute...

Carbon sequestration, or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it long-term, could help us fight climate change. It's a complex chemical reaction, but a team of six scientists led by the California Institute...

From Eurekalert Carnegie Institution for Science   IMAGE: Porphyra clinging to rocks in Germany’s Heligoland. It thrives in the harsh habitat of the intertidal zone, where it is exposed to fluctuating temperatures,...

The wall of Republican climate denial is starting to crack; who will be the Neo that accelerates the process?

A genetically engineered version of the fungus in your bread and beer could help clean up the environment. A team of seven scientists at institutions in Romania and Norway developed yeast that could clean up heavy metal pollution...

These images aren't from a horror show in which alien creatures paralyze highways and melt cars wherever they fall - they're from Depoe Bay, Oregon. A truck hauling "slime eels" (also known as hagfish for their ghoulish appearance)...

The images seem as though they were lifted from some horror show in which alien creatures paralyze highways and melt cars wherever they fall. In a stranger-than-fiction twist, something quite similar actually occurred in...

The UK is currently a world leader in fusion research; leaving Euratom would be calamitousIn the south of France, the largest scientific experiment mankind has ever embarked upon is rising out of the ground...

In the event that Earth is struck by an asteroid, the sun goes supernova or the planet is soaked in gamma ray bursts in an extreme energetic explosion, the last surviving creatures won't be cockroaches - they will be tardigrades...

Absence of climate and energy policy has left Australia lagging dangerously behind, missing out on investment and facing major electricity disruptions.

Solar arrays can put a serious dent in your electricity bill, however the cost of installing a photovoltaic system remains prohibitively high for many people...