Yahoo News UN agrees 'once-in-a-generation' treaty to protect biodiversity in oceans
For the first time, UN members have agreed on a 'once-in-a-generation' treaty to protect marine life in the regions outside national boundary waters, known as the high seas.
For the first time, UN members have agreed on a 'once-in-a-generation' treaty to protect marine life in the regions outside national boundary waters, known as the high seas.
‘We’re not forcing anyone to remove gas boiler’, says energy secretary Grant Shapps
Thousands more dead and dying shellfish have been washed up on a beach on a stretch of coast where there has previously been a mass crustacean die-off. Source: PA
A large hole capable of generating solar winds north of a million miles per hour has appeared on the surface of the sun for the second time in a week. It is known as a coronal hole - and this one is 20 times bigger than Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted it, and it could send superfast solar winds of 1.8 million miles per hour hurtling towards our planet as early as Thursday.
Households are to be penalised if they do not switch away from gas under net zero plans to be unveiled on Thursday.
Standing charges are set to go up from April and campaigners have urged people to take meter readings so they know where they stand
An ultramassive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the sun has been discovered by UK astronomers. Scientists from Durham University said the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found. The team described its findings, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, as "extremely exciting".
But critics described Mr Shapps’s announcement as ‘weak and feeble’
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning from Thursday evening as 70mph winds are expected to affect the south of England and Wales
Discovery is at least sixth find of human remains in recreational areas of reservoir in last year
Tory energy plan ‘dangerously lacklustre’, say climate campaigners – as UK chancellor attacks US green subsidies
BO'AO, China (AP) — Russia's Gazprom is increasing gas supplies to China and expects soon to reach the maximum planned level through a Siberian pipeline, its chairman said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's importance as his country's top export market in the face of Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Gazprom is negotiating with China over a possible additional supply project across neighboring Mongolia, Viktor Zubkov said at a government-organized economic forum.
Landlords will be blocked from letting properties unless they upgrade them to meet net zero energy efficiency targets within five years.
Households could face higher charges for using water in the summer under new rules by the regulator to encourage lower usage.
April is more snowy than November, with an average 2.3 snow days
New energy efficiency rules which will require landlords to provide well-insulated homes threaten to cost investors thousands of pounds.
Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the group allegedly harassed a pod of wild dolphins in waters off the Big Island. It's against federal law to swim within 50 yards (45 meters) of spinner dolphins in Hawaii’s nearshore waters. The prohibition went into effect in 2021 amid concerns that so many tourists were swimming with dolphins that the nocturnal animals weren’t getting the rest they need during the day to be able to forage for food at night.
It is one of the biggest black holes ever found, scientists say.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / HandoutLast October, astronomers notched another record for the books when they observed the brightest-ever gamma ray burst ever seen, which released an explosion that traveled over 1.9 billion light-years to sweep through the solar system. A follow-up investigation unveils new secrets about the explosion in unprecedented detail—giving scientists a better understanding of what happened and how such an event rollicked through space.The gamma ray burst “gave
Curious humans are disrupting the dolphins’ sleep cycles
If publishing new and revised UK government documents on subjects relating to climate change had a cooling effect on the planet, scientists could forget about global warming and instead worry about an imminent ice age. Carbon Brief’s Simon Evans has put together a handy Google Doc listing all the documents (44) and the total number of pages (2,840) released today (so far). Ministers have very much pitched today, dubbed ‘Green day’, on the security of supply.