Environment

Uranium is found in minerals in the soil, dissolves in mining water and ends up in the fields together with phosphate fertilizer. In Germany, the heavy metal uranium is particularly common in Saxony and Thuringia, […]

A deadly wall of muddy water that swept away an Indian Himalayan town this week was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier exacerbated by the rising effects of climate change, experts said on Thursday.This […]

Fire season is expanding in California, with an earlier start to wildfire activity in most of the state. In parts of the northern mountains, the season is now starting more than 10 weeks earlier than […]

This summer, much of North China has endured widespread temperatures above 35°C. Even typically cooler, high-latitude summer retreats like Harbin in Northeast China—usually a refuge from the heat—saw temperatures soar past 35°C in late June […]

Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by […]

As Asia grapples with a surge in extreme weather events, from record-breaking rainfall and typhoons to prolonged heat waves, one of the world’s leading climate scientists is sounding the alarm with an eight-point manifesto aimed […]

The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday.This post was originally published on this […]

French firefighters said Thursday they were hoping to halt the country’s biggest wildfire this summer that has left one person dead and destroyed several thousand hectares of land and dozens of homes in the south.This […]

USC scientists are exploring how the sandy seafloor off the Southern California coast takes up CO2 and helps protect the long-term health of our oceans.This post was originally published on this site.

Negotiations on a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting bogged down in a “dialogue of the deaf,” sources at the talks told AFP on Thursday.This post was originally […]