Environmental Protection
The South Pole is warming fast. Very fast
How much of the warming can be attributed to natural and manmade causes remains little understood.
Jaguars are facing a grave new threat: Chinese medicine
The iconic big cats are being killed for their fangs and other body parts so they can be used in traditional Chinese medicine.
E-waste has reached massive proportions worldwide
Less than a fifth, or 17.%, of e-waste was collected and recycled last year, leaving the rest unrecycled.
Rising heat in the tropics is a threat to plant seed viability
In the next 50 years, it's likely to become too hot for some plant seeds to germinate in the tropics. That may reduce species survival.
The Mayan city of Tikal succumbed to ‘water pollution’
“Archaeologists and anthropologists have been trying to figure out what happened to the Maya for 100 years."
Coal is less and less viable financially, experts say
A third of the planet's coal plants are already costlier to operate than building new renewable power sources.