Environment

Engineers have built a floating laboratory on a 100-foot barge at the Port of Los Angeles to test the idea of removing carbon dioxide from saltwater and reintroducing it to the ocean to reduce global warming. The ocean, which is…

According to fresh satellite data gathered by a Washington-based think tank, China is expanding its fifth station in the Antarctic footprint. The data suggests that work has started again on the country's fifth station in the southern…

Wildlife officials are fighting a losing battle to stop a big aquatic rodent with brilliant orange fangs from spreading further across the US. Nutria, which resembles a hybrid between a beaver and an oversized rat, can reach a maximum…

A news announcement shared on Facebook, the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is offering a $25,000 reward to the first person to recover at least one kilogram of a space rock that landed across the state.  The museum, which is situated in…

The Gila River Indian Community will receive up to $233 million in funding for conservation agreements that will assist the tribe and other water users along the Colorado River Basin in protecting the Colorado River system's stability and…

In the absence of a worldwide economic downturn or pandemic, it would be the first annual decline in the use of fossil fuels like oil and gas to produce power. By accounting for more than a third of all carbon emissions connected to…

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill banning the storage of high-level nuclear waste in New Mexico just hours after the Legislature passed it. Because the bill did not receive enough votes to be declared an emergency, it will take…

The quantity of rain and snow that California received during the winter is likely to generate perilous circumstances this spring and summer as snowmelt enters the state's rivers and streams, according to a recent news release from state…