A fast-growing brush fire that started on Monday morning in southern California has prompted evacuation orders for thousands of people and damaged at least one home. The Sandy fire was reported just after 10am in Simi Valley, a city in Ventura county about 30 miles north-west
An AI trained to use thermal images to detect whale body heat could help warn ships at risk of colliding with the marine mammals.
Exclusive: Science agency is planning to sack a third of the team working on the national climate model, sources say Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Job cuts at the national science agency mean Australia will no longer be able to submit climate
Soil DNA from Chile to the Antarctic Peninsula ties warmer climates to more plant fungal pathogens, with abundance projected to double by 2100.
Rush to develop fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada collides with laws meant to protect endangered species Environmental groups in Canada fear endangered orcas could become a casualty of Mark Carney’s push for a new oil pipeline, as the rush to develop fossil fuel
Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage Scientists have found high levels of toxic Pfas, or “forever chemicals” , in soil, water and throughout the marine food chain in the UK’s Solent
UK foreign secretary says urgent pressure needed to get strait of Hormuz reopened and fertiliser and fuel moving Global fertiliser supplies must be freed up within weeks to avoid disaster, with harvests suffering and food prices rising, the UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette
EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’ The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two
