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| August 7th, 2026 13:50:13 EDT -0400 Hosepipe bans in force as drought declared - is your area affected? More than 20 million households have been placed under hosepipe bans due to higher demand and low rainfall. |
| August 7th, 2026 11:30:46 EDT -0400 Is this the best day of the year for stargazing? Put 12 August in the diary for some of the best astronomical events of the year. |
| August 7th, 2026 09:32:41 EDT -0400 Trump administration to pay German firm $1.2bn to halt US wind projects The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump. |
| August 7th, 2026 01:15:56 EDT -0400 Wildfire damage could take hundreds of years to recover from, experts say Habitats belonging to snakes and rare moths have been destroyed after the wildfires this summer. |
| August 7th, 2026 00:49:18 EDT -0400 Drone warnings and sheltering in airports as South Korea battles historic heatwave The president has called the extreme heat a "national disaster" and ordered agencies to mobilise all resources. |
| August 6th, 2026 18:31:18 EDT -0400 Where is Jackie? Beloved live cam eagle in critical condition The bald eagle, who has gained worldwide fame as the protagonist of a nest live-stream in California, has been diagnosed with anaemia. |
| August 6th, 2026 17:49:48 EDT -0400 Watch: Nasa astronauts conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS Astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir ventured out to install a mounting hardware for the future addition of solar arrays to the space station. |
| August 6th, 2026 13:38:51 EDT -0400 South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crash Seoul's lunar orbiter captured images of the Moon before and after part of SpaceX's rocket hit its surface on Wednesday. |
| August 6th, 2026 10:51:37 EDT -0400 Employees make plans for a windfall as SpaceX shares are unlocked SpaceX's shares are unlocked Thursday, and some early employees could see a massive windfall. The BBC's Samira Hussain explains. |
| August 6th, 2026 06:00:06 EDT -0400 All of England's rivers and lakes polluted with chemicals, officials say A comprehensive assessment of England's waterways is the first in six years and shows little improvement. |
| August 5th, 2026 17:56:38 EDT -0400 Marmots facing money troubles turn to OnlyFans A Colorado lab researching the ground-squirrels comes up with an innovative way to raise money after funding cuts. |
| August 5th, 2026 11:01:33 EDT -0400 See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet New images and footage of the Sun show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before. |
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| August 7th, 2026 05:13:00 EDT -0400 Mountain Lions Are Keeping Deer Off the Road, Study Finds Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds. |
| August 6th, 2026 01:46:00 EDT -0400 For America’s Rarest Wildlife, Survival May Hinge on a Single Word For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined "harm" as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction. |
| August 5th, 2026 08:56:00 EDT -0400 Who Gets to Decide the Fate of a Pristine Alaskan Rainforest? In "Land Less" — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging. |
| August 4th, 2026 08:30:00 EDT -0400 The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar, analysts say. |
| August 3rd, 2026 09:16:00 EDT -0400 In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia. |
| July 31st, 2026 09:04:00 EDT -0400 Abandoned Study of Australian Ash Trees Challenges Case for Clearcutting A landmark study of the towering ash trees that grow in the mountains of Victoria, Australia, which was launched in the 1980s, boosted arguments for clearcutting the iconic trees. But when scientists returned to the site years later, they came to a much different conclusion. |
| July 30th, 2026 06:07:00 EDT -0400 ‘Wastelands’ No More: India Charts a Future for Its Grasslands Since the colonial era, India has regarded its native scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of rangelands globally, officials are working to map the nation's ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring these vital ecosystems. |
| July 29th, 2026 09:25:00 EDT -0400 Fatal Detonation of WWII Explosive in Indonesia Linked to Illicit Fishing In May, a group of fishers on the Indonesian island of Biak were dismantling an unexploded shell left over from World War II when the device went off, reportedly killing seven people and injuring 19 others. Officials have concluded that the fishers were harvesting materials from the shell for use in blast fishing. |
| July 28th, 2026 09:33:00 EDT -0400 In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Power In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year. |
| July 27th, 2026 08:18:00 EDT -0400 Weather Whiplash Helped Fuel the Wildfires in France and Spain In a summer of record heat waves, France and Spain are now facing wildfires that have forced the evacuations of more than 300,000 people. Scientists say that a sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the blazes. |
| July 24th, 2026 08:52:00 EDT -0400 Controlled Burns Have Saved Hundreds of Giant Sequoias The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds. |
| July 23rd, 2026 05:55:00 EDT -0400 After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends. |







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