Pope Francis warned that rising temperatures and melting ice caps could combine to produce a second great flood unless world leaders act to stop corruption and injustice.
Unraveling the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch : Floating landfill twice the size of TEXAS in the North Pacific may get most of its plastic debris from eastern Asia, study reveals
A new study set out to uncover the pathways that transports trash to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific, which contains 1.8 trillion pieces
A probability model was created to see what pathways were transporting debris
Researchers found a high-probability channel connecting Asia s eastern coast
The team suggests that this may be a large source of plastic pollution
There are fewer than 366 surviving specimens, according to a new assessment.
Vessel strikes and entanglements in fishing nets remain the biggest threat to the massive marine mammals, but climate change is leading to rising ocean temperatures that endanger the krill the whales eat to survive.
The saddening trend can still be reversed, experts say, with focused efforts to protect the whales safety and increase their reproduction.
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There are fewer than 366 remaining North Atlantic right whales on Earth, according to a new assessment aggregating monitoring data from tagging studies, aerial and vessel photography, animal sampling and other sources
The petrol car changed the nature of travel and brought joy, exhilaration and convenience to millions.
But as part of Britain s fight against man-made climate change, cars powered by fossil fuels are being phased out in favour of electric vehicles and other forms of travel.
It means that, from 2030, new petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned.
So in timely fashion, automotive writer Lance Cole has revealed in his new book some of the most iconic classic cars - from a 1905 racer which broke the world speed record, to the much-loved 1990s Volvo 850 R.
Classic Car Gallery - A Journey Through Motoring History, which is published by Pen & Sword, shows off a treasure trove of motoring beauties.
Woolly mammoths would have lived another 4,000 years in some parts of Eurasia if it weren t for human hunters, according to a new study.
Australian experts performed computer simulations of woolly mammoth interactions with humans and climates based on evidence from fossils and ancient DNA.
The findings suggested a warming climate forced them further north into smaller patches of tundra, but hunters dealt the final blow when they reached those areas.
Experts have previously blamed woolly mammoth extinction on meteor impacts, volcanoes, habitat loss and even disease, as well as humans and climate change.
Woolly mammoths were elephant-like animals that evolved in the arctic peninsula of Eurasia around 600,000 years ago. The last mammoths died out around 4,000 years ago, after the construction of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt