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We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ever created with the highest environmental concentrations in India, predominantly because so much of its waste…

European climate monitor says extreme weather will become more ‘intense’ if countries don’t slash emissions.

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) today is down -0.02 (-0.10%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) is down -1.70 (-0.32%). Sugar prices today gave up an early advance and turned slightly lower on weakness in gasoline prices. Gasoline (RBV24 ) dropped to a 2-3/4 year...

Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms

The U.S. is nearing the end of one of its hottest summers on record. Across the nation, heat waves have driven peak electricity demand on some days to levels far exceeding seasonal averages.

On a recent visit to Rangely, a small town in northwest Colorado, my colleagues and I met with the administrators of a highly regarded community college to discuss the town’s economy. Leaving the scenic campus, we saw families driving into the mountains in off-road vehicles, a favorite activity for this…

Late winter and early spring has been marked by wild weather sweeping large parts of Australia, damaging homes and businesses and causing power outages.

A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring authorities to stop drilling for the black gold that keeps spilling into their environment.

Hottest large city in US broke previous heat record from 1993 as temperatures are expected to reach 110 tomorrow

A report on the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century details steps communities can take to reduce the likelihood that grassland wildfires will turn into urban conflagrations

Coal generated less than 50 percent of Australia's electricity in the last week of August, dropping to a record low as renewable production surged, data showed Wednesday.