JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?

CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level data

Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority The world faces a “narrowing window” to restore forests essential for food security and resistance to the climate emergency, a United Nations report has warned. More than 489m hectares (1.2bn acres) of forests have been cleared since 1990, while an even greater area is degraded, the world body said in a call for governments to make forest restoration a national priority. Continue reading...

Europäische Länder melden weitere Infektionen mit dem West-Nil-Virus – am meisten Italien. In Deutschland haben sich bislang vier Personen infiziert. Invasive Mückenarten treiben die Ausbreitung voran.

Zu dem Rekord trugen ungewöhnlich viele Sonnenstunden und der Ausbau der Photovoltaik bei.

Heavy rain and storms have triggered floods and landslides across parts of India and neighbouring Nepal, killing at least 19 people ​and leaving 10 workers missing as rivers rose above danger levels, authorities said.

His allies excuse and defend his ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico.

Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide

His allies excuse and defend his ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico.

Editorial: Hundreds of thousands are expected to die, millions to go hungry. This is not just about weather patterns, but about injustice

National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools There is no chance of a birdie or an eagle any more. But there are skylarks, short-eared owls, avocets and curlew. Sandilands, a former golf course on the Lincolnshire coast, has been transformed by the National Trust into a 2km-long nature reserve with wetlands, wading pools, rough grassland and coastal scrub. Continue reading...

“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.

Known as the ‘energy bars of the sea’ the fish are a key food source for many species, but closing fisheries to allow numbers to recover would cost millions

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are asking a federal judge to hold the president in check for what they say is a violation of their Constitutional rights simply because he doesn't like how they cover him.

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in the next six months, according to estimates by climate scientists. The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis. It will strike across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and Nigeria to the US. Many further deaths are expected from the droughts, wildfires and flooding that El Niños bring. Continue reading...

It’s going to get worse.

Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life.

Australian scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The unequal impact of the climate crisis on the world’s poorest people has been highlighted by new research that finds the tropics will be among the last places to feel the benefits if the global community cuts greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. Temperatures have risen more significantly in tropical areas relative to historic levels than at higher latitudes, including in wealthier countries in Europe and North America. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Laut dem jetzt vorgelegten Planetary Health Check ist die Lage der Erde kritisch - aber nicht aussichtslos.

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009. Continue reading...

A glacier collapse unleashed floods that inundated hydropower tunnels deep in the Himalayas, trapping workers. Reuters maps the tunnels and the rescue effort that followed.

Hegseth is only the beginning.

Erstmals seit mehr als hundert Jahren haben Forscher in Südamerika eine bislang unbekannte Katzenart entdeckt.

The story of how a crafty middle power pantsed a moronic superpower.

Antarctic krill serve as a crucial food source for penguins, seals, and whales. They recycle nutrients used by algae. Now researchers say they've found krill in a surprising place: hydrothermal vents.

Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Cabang Panti work round the clock to stave off blaze Wildfires in Indonesia are sweeping through a critical research site for Bornean orangutans and are now threatening a celebrated research camp, home to one of the world’s longest-running studies of wild apes. In the past few days, the fires have burned within 200 metres of Rangkong research station, a satellite of Cabang Panti research station, which lies about four miles north in Gunung Palung national park. Continue reading...