environment

IntroductionUnder the double pressure of climate change and rapid urbanization, the degradation of the urban thermal environment has become a major obstacle to regional sustainable development. As a manufacturing-leading metropolis, Dongguan has undergone a drastic land use transformation and ecological space compression since 2000, potentially undermining its urban cooling system.MethodsIn this …

A federal judge also warned White House to tread carefully as it moves ahead with plans to revamp DC golf course A federal judge weighed into a dispute over Donald Trump ’s controversial plans to revamp a historic Washington DC golf course on Monday, warning the president’s administration to tread carefully as it also dumped “toxic” rubble from the demolished White House East Wing there. District…

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers a holistic framework to evaluate environmental impacts of road construction materials. Using recycled and secondary materials can significantly reduce emissions, energy use, and resource depletion supporting sustainable, circular infrastructure development.

As global challenges like climate change, water scarcity, and environmental degradation intensify, the demand for skilled professionals in water management and sustainable development continues to grow. For Mexican students eager to contribute to meaningful global solutions, pursuing a Master of Science degree at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education presents a powerful opportunity. Located in …

Jonathan Rinderknecht’s attorneys say he’s being used as scapegoat for Los Angeles fire department’s failure to fully extinguish earlier blaze Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles was upset over a failed relationship and his lack of plans for New Year’s Eve – and he ranted about being ang…

Columbia Climate School is thrilled to announce that Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft, will deliver the keynote address at the Climate School’s Class Day ceremony.

Nature Water, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00642-9 Crop models increasingly project that irrigation can offset agricultural losses from climate change, informing major adaptation investments worldwide. Yet these models may systematically overestimate irrigation’s protective capacity because the representation of how irrigation alters crop thermal environments remains inco…

Nature Water, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00646-5 Endocrine-disrupting progestogens pose risks to ecosystems through their biological activity. A chemoproteomics study shows that many phytoplankton species can transform these chemicals into forms that may be even more biologically active, potentially increasing ecological risk.

Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72058-8 Paleo-depositional history and hydrogeological evolution fundamentally dictate microbial. landscapes and groundwater quality in the Pearl River Delta. This study links ancient sedimentary processes to modern-day ammonium dynamics in global deltas.

Electric cars in every parking lot, heat pump installations as routine as oil changes, and solar panels on rooftops in unexpected places are just a few examples of the changes that long-term California residents have surely noticed. Maintenance contractors for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, as well as those for plumbing and electrical systems, report that customers no longer …

Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic Americans do not care about the climate crisis, only economic issues: that’s the message some wonks have put forth in the past year, as the Trump administration has dismantled environmental protections. But the shift away from climate is misguided, an influential group of pr…

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01441-8 Legal rights for insects: a global imperative for stingless-bee conservation

Nature, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01409-8 Unless governments treat fertilizer production as strategic infrastructure, the world will keep lurching from energy shock to harvest failure.

A new study of the British Isles’ coastal ecosystems has revealed that nitrogen enrichment is significantly reducing the abundance and variety of marine life.

Appeal launched to buy Nottinghamshire cottage, where tree was planted in 19th century, and turn it into heritage centre Campaigners have launched an appeal to try to save for the nation the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the world. The original bramley apple tree , which grows in the garden of a cottage in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, is for sale, with the cottage put on…

Scientists spent three years figuring out why this volcano did the opposite of everything they predicted. The answer changes how we read the sky.

BEV sales jumped nearly 60% in April, taking total electric car registrations to more than 2m, says SMMT Business live – latest updates A recent jump in electric car sales in the UK is likely to be “tempered” by worries over rising inflation and energy prices caused by the Iran war, a leading industry body has warned. New car sales in the UK rose by 24% year on year to 149,247 in April, according…

Every yellowtail snapper excretes ammonia. It cannot help doing so; it is a metabolic inevitability, the nitrogen-rich byproduct of a fish eating, breathing, living at commercial density in a tank on Virginia Key, Florida. In a conventional aquaculture operation, that ammonia accumulates in the effluent water until it becomes a problem, sometimes a serious one, for the marine environment downstre…

A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.

It is well known that biological invasions can be severely harmful to native biodiversity - preventing the damage they cause is a global conservation priority. A new University of Bristol study highlights a different type of impact that they cause - the often-overlooked animal welfare consequences of biological invasions. The research, published in Nature Communications today [5 May], reveals t…