Environmental Protection
Study: climate change will hurt poorest nations most
In cold countries, a little bit of warming can help. The opposite is true in places that are already hot.
The U.S. is moving to protect giraffes from trophy hunters
The iconic animals may soon become officially protected under the U.S.'s Endangered Species Act.
Ice on Greenland is melting at an accelerating pace
In just eight years between 2010 and 2018 the island shed 286 billion tons of ice.
How will ‘stressed-out’ plants weather climate change?
In a world with more extreme temperatures, especially heat, plants, too, will be "stressed out."
In warming Alaska climate change is already a daily reality
"My worst fear is the speed of change," a local climate scientist warms.
Experts chart the way plastic waste has conquered the seas
Marine plastic has increased significantly over the decades and we are seeing it spread all over the world.