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Yorkshire Water given low rating following pollution incidents

They are under fire from two United Kingdom regulators this week, with one warning penalties could be increased for environmental failures and another planning ...

Trump touts environmental leadership in speech

Gore, co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his activism on climate change, said that "American voters aren't fooled by the President's attempts to cove...

Environment Agency tells water companies to clean up their act

Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd, who has previously warned water companies they would face a tougher regulatory approach with increasing inspection...

CCC: UK government failing to act on climate change

It praises Prime Minister Theresa May for delivering that one policy - namely legislating for total decarbonisation of the UK economy by 2050 - but adds that wh...

Antarctic Glaciers Are Unstable, Can Slide Off Into Sea

Assistant professor Alex Robel, who led the study on Antarctica's ice melt at Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, warned of the conse...

U.S. astronomers discover asteroid with shortest year

Before 2019 LF6 came along, 2019 AQ3 had the shortest known year of any asteroid, orbiting the sun roughly every 165 days. The ZTF is responsible for scanning...

Tropical Development Likely in the Gulf This Week

The storm is expected to accelerate after it eventually collides with the Gulf's warm water, which is now at 86.9 degrees, according to a reporting station in P...

USGS video shows thousands of earthquakes in the past week

A man looks into a fissure that opened in the desert. No deaths or major injuries have been linked to last week's earthquakes , but the magnitude 7.1 tremor ...

Saturn goes into 'opposition' Tuesday afternoon; appears bright at night

The massive, ringed planet will be visible on Tuesday, and even though having a telescope will offer better views, skywatchers won't really need one on hand, si...

President Trump Says Salute to America Will Happen Again Next Year

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Friday, Jun...

Scientist discover Snowball the cockatoo has 16 distinct dance moves

But that was merely the start. The authors stressed Schulz didn't train Snowball to dance. The analyses of the videos revealed that Snowball had a diverse rep...

Here's how to deal with climate change by planting more trees

A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology gives an estimate of the number of trees humans need to plant to banish the imminent calamity th...

Duran Duran to Perform at Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Celebration

Other experiments will test a small rover called MoonRanger that can drive itself beyond a lander's communication range and then return, widening the range of...

Satellites have spotted the biggest seaweed bloom in the world

Scientists have measured what they say is the largest seaweed bloom on record, stretching 8,850 kilometres (nearly 5,500 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean and ma...

The National Trust to cease investment in fossil fuel firms

Currently, the Trust has around £40 million (€44.5 million) of its £ 1 billion of assets invested in firms that derive less than 10% of their turnover from pro...

New Space India Ltd incorporated as new commercial arm of Isro

It is time to harness our ability commercially. Earlier in March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in an address to the nation, announced that India "has reg...

US waste driving global garbage glut, study shows

Waste management, recycling, and ambitious green initiatives have been big news in Canada over the last couple of months. Americans only reuse 35% of the solid ...

In Highlands Ranch, Lockheed Martin Engineers Celebrate A Successful NASA Orion Launch

Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology. This month marks the 50th anniversary Apollo 11 moon landing, and Orion's m...

Study finds huge potential to grow trees, capture carbon emissions

In a first of its kind study, a team at ETH Zurich has calculated the potential area and impact of a new forest large enough to slash roughly two-thirds off the...

Recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing to be auctioned at Sotheby's

Remote, In Situ, and Synchrotron Studies for Science and Exploration 2 (RISE2) from Stony Brook University, New York, will look into how the environments on oth...

Floating Antarctic ice goes from record high to record lows

He called the plummeting ice levels "a white-knuckle ride". Unlike the Arctic, Antarctica is not warming and remains the coldest place on Earth, as well as ...

Hubble and Spitzer team to identify exoplanet atmosphere

The planet weighs in at 12.6 Earth masses and it less massive than Neptune. Chemicals found in the atmosphere surrounding a medium-sized planet around an alie...

NASA Captures the Galaxy's Biggest Fireworks Show

Telescopes, including Hubble, have monitored the Eta Carinae star system for more than two decades. Hubble has used almost all its tools in the last 25 years ...

Recordings of Apollo 11 moon landing to be auctioned at Sotheby’s

The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will support the new teams for five years at a combined total of about United States dollars 10...

Florida Man’s Drone Captures Images Of Shark Swimming Near His Kids

But when he saw the shark he immediately ran to his wife, pleading with her to get their three children out of the water. "As soon as I took (the drone) out...

Japan resumes commercial whaling after three-decade break

While the resumption of commercial whaling was condemned by many conservation groups, others see it as a face-saving way to let the government's embattled and e...

Japanese commercial whaling set to resume for food industries

Eventually, commercial whaling might be undone by simple arithmetic. One of these species, the sei, is listed at " endangered " on the International Union o...

NASA Building Eight Research Teams To Study Moon, Asteroids

Our lander and rover capabilities are created to deliver our customers to the Moon and allow them to carry out meaningful, low-priced activities for science, ex...

Last month was the hottest June on record: European Union satellite agency

Climate scientists have long said that a warming of the earth's surface caused mainly by industrial-era emissions of carbon-dioxide from fossil fuels will make ...

NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Tiniest Alien Planet Yet

One of these planets, L 98-59b, is the smallest yet discovered by the TESS mission. A lot more are coming: TESS is observing something like 200,000 nearby s...