Fireflies are nature’s flash mob—appearing briefly to dazzle and glow before dying. That makes the charismatic creatures, ...

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

The snowpack at the beginning of April was less than normal, and the spring has been very warm and dry in the Rocky Mountains, which has led to low runoff. Currently, Lake Powell is at 31 percent ...

The spheres are part of a system called StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea) developed by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology. The system works by opening a ...

The decision means that the City of Honolulu’s lawsuit will move forward instead of being cut off at the knees, which Shell, Exxon, Mobil, and others had wanted. If the defendants had won, it is ...

The hearing last week began just days after the COP29 climate conference ended, which was severely criticized for failing to agree on adequate compensation to help poorer nations cope with climate ...

The tool, created by researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), can detect differences in the light reflected by sand, water, or plastics, allowing the pollution to be seen on ...

A new report by international experts at the Global Commission on the Economics of Water says that the water cycle is out of balance for the first time in human history, and that worldwide demand ...

Lane Burdette, a researcher at TeleGeography, holds an undersea cable to show H2O Radio during an interview. The cables contain optical fibers smaller than a human hair, which are bundled together and ...