Environment on ZME Science

Giraffes are facing a silent extinction - and so are other, undiscovered species

A new report published by the IUCN shows that the emblematic giraffe is facing a threatening decline.

Monkeys have the vocal hardware required for speech but lack the brains

A monkey could speak just as well as you or me, were it to have the dedicated neural machinery.

The fish that evolved to survive toxic pollution 8,000 times the lethal dose

A mutant success story.

Not too long ago, Greenland stayed ice-free for 280,000 years

The Vikings were late a million years. Back then this was 'really' Greenland.

Why the Weather Channel's reply to Breibart only works in the latter's favour

Don't feed the trolls.

Google to run 100% on renewable energy in 2017

Google announced it will get all its 2017 energy from solar and wind.

How a vital Tequila ingredient could help us adapt to climate change

Climate change is throwing a party. Let's prepare the drinks.

Record sea ice retreat in the Arctic and Antarctica. Polar bear populations could drop by a third by 2050

It's not looking too good.

More young people are watching David Attenborough’s "Planet Earth" than the X Factor

It's not often that a nature documentary tops the ratings.

Startling NASA photo reveals 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf

It looks like we're moving closer to a dramatic break-up.

Why We Have to Promote Renewable Energy

Climate change is real, but do you feel powerless in facing that reality?

Rivers are overflowing around Syria because there's no one to use them anymore

War is hell.

Thirty years in seconds: Google timelapses show how cities sprung to life in Asia or how ice retreats from Arctic

You can't fool satellites.

There are 30 trillion tons of human-made stuff all over the planet

And it's called the technosphere.

No, global temperatures aren't "plunging" - fake news is acting up

What can go wrong when loudmouths spread fake information?

The oceans have their own 'bees' too -- tiny crustaceans that pollinate seagrasses

The buzz of the ocean.

Why cats bring dead animals home to you

You should actually be honored.

All London buses will be green by 2018

This is the end for London's dirty buses.

Chinese laws are fuelling animal testing for makeup

Now it's trickier to know if makeup and hygiene products are cruelty-free.

Highest-living plant discovered more than 6km above sea level in the Himalayas

Hardy little things too.

Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City to ban all diesels by 2025, mayors announce

Maybe VW shouldn't have cheated on their emissions tests.

British researchers on the hunt for world's oldest ice

As the Antarctic spring comes to an end and the "summer" enters into force, a team of geoscientists is seeking 1.5-million-year ice.

In times of turmoil, academics stand up, develop code of conduct and reaffirm fight against racism, misogyny and climate change denial

In times of political turmoil, academics are often the first to react.

People use more bikes than cars now to enter Copenhagen's city center

Copenhagen seems to be the capital of cycling in the world.

China is building a huge solar plant at Chernobyl

When one door closes, another one opens.

New high-tech shelter reminds us that Chernobyl is still deadly, thirty years after the meltdown

The new one is much better than the last one though.

Michigan's biggest energy provider will phase out coal, despite Trump

The coal industry seems to be singing its swan song, despite political efforts to save it.

World's poorest countries pledge to 100% renewable energy

They're leapfrogging developed countries.

We should prepare for bad surprises in the Arctic climate, new report finds

Unless we start reducing fossil fuel consumption drastically and fast, irreversible changes will happen in the Arctic and that will affect all of us.

Canada set to join US in banning microbeads

An important move for protecting wildlife and the environment.

West Antarctic ice sheet is melting from the inside, signaling an accelerated collapse

The ice shelf is far more fragile than we hoped.

Fiji ants were the first plant farmers some three million years ago

Most ants scavenge your picnic, but these ones don't need anything.

Comprehensive study finds that sustainable eating could save the planet

Cutting down on meat could drastically reduce global warming.

Finland plans to completely ban coal use by 2030. Decision soon to come in front of Parliament

A completely radical approach to fighting the dirtiest energy source.

Stay away from the coconut crab's pincers. It's crushing force is almost the strongest of all land animals

Only alligators carry a heavier clamping force.

Scientists are trapping more and more CO2 into volcanic basalt

Storing CO2 underground might be one pivotal for our climate future.

Stunning photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe emerge - just as they're threatened by illegal gold miners

Spectacular images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon have emerged, but conservationists and indigenous populations fear that the villagers are in grave danger.

That's probably not cod that you are eating

There's something fishy with your fish!

New Zealand town builds a 25 meter long tunnel to save blue penguins

Blue penguins were facing a perilous transit to their nests, so a New Zealand city decided to build an underpass to protect them.

Just 1C global warming impacts every aspect of life on Earth, new study finds

Things are already bad.

Video: watch how a beautiful forest changes during a year

Filmmaker Samuel Orr took 40,000 still images from his front window in a forest cabin to show how nature changes day by day.

Tesla converts an entire island of American Samoa from 100% diesel to 100% solar energy

The island used to import 100,000 gallons of diesel each year from overseas. Now renewable energy meets all its needs!

NASA tells us which plants to buy for cleaner air -- in 100% infographic format

Plants > Chemicals.

The Garden of Eel: the out of this world, mildly disturbing feeding pattern of garden eels

It's no nightmare -- just nature. And it's actually beautiful!

Slovenia just declared water a universal right for all

This might make a big difference in the future.

Number of plastic bags found on UK shores almost halved after just 5p tax

A few cents can make a big difference.

Environmentalists plead Japanese and French banks to stop financing coal-fired plants in Indonesia

A story of broken promises and land grabbing.

The North Pole is a whopping 36F (20C) hotter than it should be right now

Things are not looking good in the North Pole.

Smog kills more than 400 people in Iran's capital Tehran

Unprecedented levels of smog pollution in Iran's capital have killed over 400 people.

Australia lobbies coal mine at climate talks

Bad Australia, bad!

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