UK vows 68 percent emissions cut by end of decade

Britain will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than two-thirds this decade, in…

Ecuador finds nest of huge, endangered sea turtle

Conservationists in Ecuador have found a nest of endangered leatherback sea turtles, a whopper of a…

Pacific Islands Forum to hold virtual climate summit

Pacific island leaders will hold a virtual summit next week to demand urgent worldwide action on…

NASA buying Moon dust for $1

The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples…

Trash tracking satellites help Indonesia tackle marine waste

Every year, pounding rains wash away mountains of plastic waste from the streets of Jakarta, with…

California monolith pops up after finds in Utah, Romania

Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths half a world apart,…

Tapping overlooked marketing data to drive business growth

Researchers from University of Houston, Columbia University, Emory University, and University of Connecticut published a new…

Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence in carbon nanotubes

That carbon nanotubes fluoresce is no longer a surprise. Finding a second level of fluorescence is…

Scientists took a rare chance to prove we can quantify biodiversity by 'testing the water'

Organisms excrete DNA in their surroundings through metabolic waste, sloughed skin cells or gametes, and this…

Advancing gene editing with new CRISPR/Cas9 variant

Using a new variant to repair DNA will improve both safety and effectiveness of the much-touted…