Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living ...

An international research team has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where crude oil spills have caused the most ...

Earth’s oceans are said to be the greatest source of untapped renewable energy, offering a nearly continuous and highly predictable source of clean energy. This kind of energy will complement the now ...

Argentina holds the world’s fourth-largest reserves of shale oil and more shale gas than anywhere except China. Argentines ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...

The United States has officially updated its maps to Gulf of America. Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico for some users.

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have unveiled a novel application of the Earth science satellite SDGSAT-1 for observing ...

London — Sixteen environmental activists who were jailed for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and ... organizations Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace U.K. are ...

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