Environment

The sun might be unusually cool by 2050, according to a new study. On the basis of 20 years of observations and collected data, scientists have calculated that the sun will be nearly seven percent cooler...

Two more mainland tourists were confirmed dead Sunday in the powerful earthquake in Taiwan’s Hualien County, bringing the death toll to 17. Braving the danger of aftershocks, rescuers found the bodies in the ruins of a...

The E4 variant of the gene APOE has previously been identified as a high-risk factor for dementia. Older adults who have acquired positive beliefs about old age from their surrounding culture are less likely to develop...

Getting rid of massive subsidies for oil, gas and coal will not significantly curb carbon pollution or speed the transition to a greener global economy, researchers said Wednesday, challenging widely held assumptions. “Unfortunately, it is not...

One year after the State of Israel introduced a law that required supermarkets to charge customers for the use of plastic bags, use of the bags has dropped by 80 per cent, and bag waste found...

Residents of drought-stricken Cape Town received rare good news Monday when city officials said they now face losing piped water to their homes on May 11 a month later than previously forecast. But Capetonians are not...

China has maintained a sea ice alert for Liaodong Bay in northeast China’s Bohai Sea as the ice grew by nearly 5,000 square km daily. On Saturday, 14,608 square km of sea ice was recorded in...

Emergency services were put on standby Saturday in Majuro, as rising king tides threatened to flood the capital of the low-lying Marshall Islands. The national weather service warned “major inundation” was possible from Saturday evening through...

Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which were determined...

Polar bears are struggling to find enough seals to eat, and the problem will get worse as the planet warms because their metabolisms are much faster than previously thought, researchers said Thursday. The report in the...