Israeli fish farmers give peckish pelicans free lunch

Migratory pelicans have long raided Israeli fish farms, which try to deter them with loudspeakers, laser…

Bangladesh tears down brick kilns to fight toxic smog

Excavators flanked by Bangladesh riot police are at work demolishing illegal soot-belching brick kilns around the…

Built on sand: Dutch find unlikely ally against water

The Netherlands is deploying an unlikely ally as climate change intensifies the low-lying country’s age-old fight…

Venice tide barriers pass another test but skeptics remain

Floated along by barge , one of the 10-ton barriers designed to relieve Venice’s perennial flooding…

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

Three of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates say addressing climate change is of great importance. …

Fossil fuel groups 'destroying' climate talks: NGOs

Oil and gas groups were accused Saturday of seeking to influence climate talks in Madrid by…

Australia braces for heatwave as more than 100 fires burn

Out of control bushfires forced residents in eastern Australia to flee their homes on Saturday, as…

Experiment closes critical gap in weather forecasting

Scientists working on the next frontier of weather forecasting are hoping that weather conditions 3-to-4 weeks…

Ancient worm reveals way to destroy toxic cells in Huntington's disease

Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington’s and…

Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality

A physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has performed calculations showing hollow spherical bubbles filled…