Environment
We're on the brink of mass extinction -- but there's still time to pull back
02 Jun 2017
Because we depend on plants and animals for food, shelter, clean air and water and more, anything we do that makes life harder for them eventually comes around to make life harder for us as well
Trump pulls US out of Paris climate deal
02 Jun 2017
The US President sought a renegotiation of the agreement which, he said, is soft on China and India and tough on the US
New approach predicts threats to rainforests
27 May 2017
Permafrost melt threatens 'Doomsaday' seed Vault in Norway
22 May 2017
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 1,000 km from the North Pole, was opened in 2008 as a master backup to the world's other seed banks
Measuring the human impact of weather
18 May 2017
Mountains of waste could lead to new US manufacturing, jobs
17 May 2017
Waste material from the paper and pulp industry soon could be made into anything from tennis rackets to cars, bringing agriculture production and industry together in a bio economy making renewable products