Workers exposed to the elements at their jobs are facing an increased risk from the heat as the climate warms, according to a report from the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological ...

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C_Knox_southern_scales, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons NZ’s existing wildlife laws fall short when it comes to protecting native lizards from the harmful impacts of human land use, say ecology and law ...

Space-based solar panels would work much like communications satellites—the panels would orbit Earth, rotating to optimally catch the sun’s rays, and this energy would be beamed to receiving stations ...

Heat-stressed Victorian mountain ash forests are thinning fast, turning from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new research reveals. Published in Nature Communications, the research shows forests will ...

The Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt is currently in South Australia visiting the sites impacted by SA's algal bloom. The bloom has been impacting the SA coast since March and there are now ...

EXPERT REACTION: Association between prenatal exposure to plastics and autism in boys Higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic commonly used in food packaging, were detected in urine ...

Diabetes journal, American Diabetes Association A genetic test of cord blood at birth may hold the key to predicting a child’s future risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to exciting new ...

An exploding star has given researchers a rare chance to find out what the inside of old stars looks like, according to an international study. Usually, when a star explodes in a supernova, the ...

Does our life flash before our eyes during death? US researchers say that as we die, our brainwaves show up in the same way that they do during dreaming, recalling memories or meditating, ...