Environment News Service

El Niño, when warm waters in the eastern Pacific fuel hotter weather globally, is beginning to recede, scientists say.

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity — and people are largely to blame.

Tiny external structures in the wax coating of blueberries give them their blue colour, researchers at the University of Bristol can reveal.

Early in 2023, a series of storms dumped record-breaking amounts of rain and snow across California.

On a cliffside at Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado, a fuzzy bee was industriously gnawing at the red sandstone.

While sustainability reporting is a widespread practice in the private sector, new research shows that the same cannot be said for Ontario municipalities.

It’s time to recognize the power of healthy forests in managing global growing flood risk, and to shift towards more sustainable forestry practices and policy.

Increased interbreeding due to loss of tidal marsh habitat caused saltwater-adapted Savannah sparrows to lose their genetic distinctiveness.

Color mixing is the process of combining two or more colors: red and green make yellow, blue and red make purple, red and green and blue make white.

Over the last two decades an estimated three billion people have been affected by water-related natural disasters such as droughts and floods.

The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective.

Humans make use of tens of thousands of different kinds of plants, many rare and endangered.

A careful study of satellite imagery has revealed four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins along the edges of Antarctica, a promising discovery in a region increasingly endangered by climate change.