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Some 4,000 vaccines are being used to try to stop an outbreak that has killed at least 26 people.

China has launched a relay satellite to prepare for a Moon rover mission planned for later in the year.

China has launched a relay satellite to prepare for a Moon rover mission planned for later in the year.

A baby elephant surprised zoo keepers after being born to a mum whose pregnancy they thought had failed.

An asteroid from beyond our Solar System has been orbiting near Jupiter for billions of years, scientists say.

An asteroid from beyond our Solar System has been orbiting near Jupiter for billions of years, scientists say.

EU nations handed out almost 500,000 free carbon allowances to industry over the past two weeks, the European Commission said in its final allocation update this year.

An ongoing federal court case in Australia could cause problems with carbon offset issuance to a number of the nation’s savanna burning schemes.

Republicans paid by the fossil fuel industry deny these realities

Last week, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held yet another climate science hearing similar to those from April 2017, February 2017, January 2016, May 2015, June 2014, December 2013, and so on. It seems as though disputing established climate science is House Republicans’ favorite hobby. This time, it was Philip Duffy’s turn to spend two hours playing whack-a-mole with the committee Republicans’ endless supply of long-debunked climate myths.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claimed that sea level rise is due to the White Cliffs of Dover tumbling into the ocean (yes, really), and his colleagues argued that scientists in the 1970s were predicting global cooling, that Earth is just returning to its “normal temperature,” that Antarctic ice is growing, and sea levels are hardly rising.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping this weekend reiterated plans to step up his country's fight against pollution, but softened language on the role China wants to play in international climate politics.

Atmospheric detectives have discovered a mysterious rise in emissions of ozone destructive CFC's

BBC correspondent Chris Buckler explains what happens when lava flow meets the sea.

There's a warning that cocoa plantations in Ghana are being turned into illegal gold mines.

An all electric rally car - the first to finish in the famous Dakar race - will compete in this year’s Finke Desert Race in its first Australian visit.

Department says it approached the non-profit group just weeks before the budget and had still not signed an agreement
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The government approached a non-profit group that will receive a record grant for reef protection only a few weeks before it announced the deal in the federal budget.

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Ocean plastic has made a big splash, but there may be even more microplastic on land. The problem is that we have no idea exactly how much is in Australian soil, where it is, and what it's doing. Alisa Bryce, Research Affiliate, University of Sydney Alex McBratney, Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science; Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney Budiman Minasny, Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney Damien Field, Associate professor Stephen Cattle, Associate professor, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Biomass-burning unit to use pioneering technology that aims to cut emissions

Drax Group will lead a £400,000 trial to capture and store carbon at its north Yorkshire power station in an attempt to kickstart a technology that has repeatedly failed to get off the ground in the UK.

The company was part of earlier efforts to build a £1bn prototype carbon capture coal plant, but pulled out in 2015 after it missed out on renewable energy subsidies. Now the firm will try again with a pioneering form of the technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), to cut emissions from one of its four biomass-burning units. Experts believe the project is a world first.

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Data from California Public Utilities Commission clearly shows that energy efficiency and decarbonisation don’t have to mean higher consumer costs. You pay more, use less, and end up better off.

Government urged to take steps to reduce the impact of toxic air on vulnerable children

Clean-air campaigners have written to the government calling for a ban on parents driving their children to school in an attempt to cut down on toxic levels of air pollution.

Environmental groups and medics warn that pollution from the school run is having a serious impact on young people’s health.

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GoodWe has been awarded the 2018 Top Brand PV seal for the second consecutive year, as announced by German independent market research specialist EuPD Research.