The Mediterranean coast faces rising microplastic contamination as researchers trace pollution to waste processing, runoff, and record rainfall.
One year after negotiations for a global plastics treaty collapsed in Geneva, a new document has been released to revive the process.
Conservationists have created a ‘coastal corridor’ of ocean-based projects designed to preserve and nourish vulnerable marine life.
Scientists and citizen volunteers discovered two new snail species in northwestern Montenegro, revealing the region’s hidden biodiversity and strengthening calls to protect Komarnica Canyon within the Durmitor World Heritage Site rather than build a hydropower plant. Two previously unknown snails have been added to Europe’s documented wildlife. Named Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido, the species [...]Weather extremes may be contributing to an unusually quiet summer for Britain’s ecologically important social wasps. A summer picnic often feels complete only when a wasp arrives to investigate the food. Common social wasps are familiar warm-weather visitors, whether they are circling outdoor meals or building an unwanted nest in the loft. Summer 2026, however, [...]A late entrant in the race to unseat Senator Susan Collins, the Democratic Senate hopeful blends a progressive streak with roots in the timber industry.
India's Andhra Pradesh state, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has denied allegations that the Google project was fast-tracked without weighing risks.
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Trout need cool water to survive, but record heat this summer has driven water temperatures to levels that can kill fish.
India is beginning to reverse decades of treating native grasslands as "wastelands," embracing a new conservation strategy that recognizes their importance for carbon storage, climate resilience, and wildlife.
The wind farm will help Virginia reach its clean energy goals and bolster in-state power generation in the face of growing energy demand. But environmentalists and local landowners are worried about the project’s impact to the mountain ecosystem.
Thousands of native milkweeds are transforming North Florida roadsides into experimental pollinator corridors. Along rural two-lane highways in North Florida, newly installed signs now identify grassy roadside slopes as wildflower areas. At this time of year, the labels may seem unnecessary. Thousands of milkweed plants are already producing dense clusters of five-sided buds and open [...]New research calls for aquatic deoxygenation to be recognized as a critical planetary process under threat. Oxygen is declining across oceans, coastal waters, rivers, lakes and streams, threatening the organisms and chemical processes that depend on it. A review led by researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that this widespread deoxygenation [...]A research team found reproducing populations of Manila clams in Cape Cod and Boston Harbor. A stretch of Atlantic shoreline that had remained free of Manila clams now appears to support reproducing populations of the invasive shellfish. Biologists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT Sea Grant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and [...]
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