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Trump EPA Chief Pick: Global Warming Not 'Greatest Crisis'

Committee Chairman Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., thanked Wheeler for withdrawing an Obama-era rule on water monitoring. Trump nominated EPA Acting Administrator...

Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Six Times Faster Than 40 Years Ago

The rate jumped 280 percent to 134 gigatons for 2001 to 2017. It takes about 360 billion tonnes of ice to produce one millimetre of global sea level rise, acc...

Special weather statement from Environment Canada

Here are the current weather warnings across the country . Environment Canada urges citizens to monitor weather alerts and updates and to follow the possibl...

Democrats hit Trump EPA nominee on coal lobbying, rollbacks

At his confirmation hearing to become the EPA's permanent chief on Wednesday, the former coal lobbyist faced staunch criticism-even after Capitol Police removed...

New US$1bn global alliance aims to end plastic waste

Current alliance members have committed more than $1 billion to the project over the next five years, while money that additional members will pledge should t...

Saturn's rings are 'very young'

But with this new finding in hand, it looks like the rings are very young - they formed less than 100 million years ago, perhaps as recently as 10 million yea...

Here’s the weather forecast during Sunday’s ‘super moon’ lunar eclipse over Carolinas

Comprehensively dubbed the Super Blood Wolf Moon , Sunday's eclipse is a rare trifecta of awesome astronomical phenomenon and not, as some might think, the tit...

Hitachi halts work on Anglesey nuclear project

Agneta Rising, director general of World Nuclear Association said: "We urge the United Kingdom government to bring forward fresh proposals for a stable financin...

Plant shoots grow on far side of Moon

Images published on Twitter show cotton shoots growing in an airtight container aboard the lander, having been kept dormant during a 20-day trip from Earth to...

Compass needles point to a mystery shift in magnetic North Pole

The North Magnetic Pole itself is not a permanent place, and actually shifts with regularity, generally moving in a northwestern path across the Arctic. By 2018...

Get ready for the "super blood wolf moon" … or not

A total lunar eclipse will occur on Sunday evening after the end of the AFC Championship Game between the Chiefs and Patriots. Sadly most of New Zealand will mi...

Cotton Seed Sprouts In China's Lunar Lander

America may have put the first man on the moon, but it is China that has laid claim to growing its first plant. In an attempt to better understand how pla...

£21bn 'holy grail' particle collider splits the scientific community

While the world's largest, most powerful particle collider remains closed for spring cleaning , scientists are turning their attention to a new toy. Named th...

Dragon Back on Earth as Station Crew Revs Up Station Science

This mission was the first SpaceX splashdown and recovery process to take place at night, according to a statement NASA posted during the capsule's 6-hour j...

Grounds for concern: 60% of wild coffees 'face extinction'

Coffee lovers, here's one more reason to savor that morning cup o' joe. In a study published in Science Advances , researchers assessed the species against t...

Sunday lunar eclipse planned during Chiefs game

According to NASA , it will be one of the sky's "most dazzling shows", as the moon will be at its closest point to Earth, making the moon appear slightly bigge...

China Says It Has Grown the First Plants on the Moon

The China National Space Agency's Chang'e 4 lander is exploring the mysterious side of our lunar neighbor that faces away from Earth. Researchers used bio...

SpaceX Launches Final Batch of Iridium Next Satellites

The eighth and final launch of the Dollars 3 billion Iridium NEXT project completed delivery of 75 new satellites to orbit for the McLean, Virginia, company. ...

CERN plans $A14 billion particle collider

The team at CERN is looking to the future with a much, much larger collider that is called the Futur Circular Collider (FCC) and has published the Conceptual ...

China sprouts the first plants on the moon

China launched the first of its lunar probe series named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess Chang'e to orbit the moon in 2007. This handout photograph...

Global warming is fueling stronger ocean waves

A wide range of long-term trends and projections carry the fingerprint of climate change, including rising sea levels, increasing global temperatures, and decli...

Foes of genetically modified foods know less than they think, study finds

Genetically modified foods are produced from genetically engineered organisms. The researchers found that the participants scored lowest on the test portion o...

‘Super wolf blood moon’: How to see this weekend’s total lunar eclipse

Finally, the "wolf moon" is just another name for the first full moon of the year. "Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily"...

Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s

Richard Alley, a Pennsylvania State University scientist not involved in Rignot's study, called it "really good science". That means the region is losing six ...

Air pollution: New plan to tackle it

There are lots of things which can make air "dirty" for example fumes from traffic and vehicles, power stations and people smoking. Mr Gove said: "While air q...

China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing

The lunar mission by Chang'e 4 and its rover, Jade Rabbit 2, was a triumph for China's growing space program, which has been rapidly catching up with those ...

Arachnophobe's nightmare: 'Floating' spiders fill sky in Brazil

Joāo Pedro Martinelli Fonseca, who filmed the event, told a local newspaper he was "stunned and scared" when he spotted thousands of black dots in the sky. Du...

DNA pioneer James Watson loses honours over race remarks

A NY laboratory has revoked the honorary titles held by its longtime leader James D. Watson on Friday, describing as "unsubstantiated and reckless" his rece...

SpaceX to lay off 10% of workers due to 'difficult challenges'

This is not the first time SpaceX has pared-down its workforce. Elon Musk tweeted saying SpaceX must become a leaner company to succeed in developing interpla...

Wet wipes to receive 'fine to flush' kitemark

A new logo will be available for manufacturers to use if their wet wipes pass specific tests. Millions of wet wipes are flushed away every year - causing huge...