El Niño has led to an eerily quiet season so far but the first Atlantic hurricane of the year is now set to impact the southern USA.

Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.

Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.

Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.

The firm says the scheme to reduce storm overflow discharges has not performed as expected.

The prize was given to the French and Japanese scientists for solving the mystery of life's asymmetry.

A push to reopen the door to commercial whaling failed at the recent meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after a controversial resolution was taken off the table on the last day. The draft resolution, put forward by the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda and co-sponsored by Palau, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.

More than half of the world’s wild tulip species assessed so far are threatened with extinction, reports Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. “For a flower this famous, it may surprise people how rare its wild relatives have become,” Brett Wilson, co-founder of the Wild Tulip Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global nature conservation authority, told Mongabay

PUERTO WILCHES, Santander – On the banks of Colombia’s largest river, the town and the wider municipality of Puerto Wilches sit amid a maze of wetlands and floodplain lakes in the Middle Magdalena Valley. Residents spend weekends at riverside swimming spots known as balnearios and nearby waterfalls, while local fishermen still cast their nets each

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

The reported death of a 28-year-old laboratory technician in eastern Siberia has triggered regional quarantines and international attention over fears of the cause of death and a lack of transparency. According to local media reports, Darya Shipilova, a technician employed at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died on Oct.

Lundy is in "real jeopardy" and could be evacuated if supplies run out, bosses say.

Necropsies are being carried out on seabirds to find out the effects of microplastic pollutants.

About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled into the same limestone formation that ancient Egyptians would later carry and carve into the Great Sphinx. Now, a century after researchers first dug up the fossils, they say the animal is a species new