According to the latest report of Project Breakthrough: Collision Course, an accelerated rate of warming is likely to continue until mid-century, given the failure so far to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists are sounding the alarm about the risks of creating mirror bacteria, hypothetical organisms made entirely from mirror-image biological molecules.

Google has introduced Willow, its latest quantum chip, representing a major breakthrough in quantum computing. This chip tackles two key challenges that have long hindered the field.

Elon Musk is a master in attracting attention with provocative oneliners and suggestive tweets. Many of those were aimed at boosting his green image, and that of his companies and products. Like Tesla electric cars. The facts, however, tell a different story.

Coal ash—the toxic byproduct from coal combustion—may turn out to be a significant domestic source of rare earth elements essential to clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels.

The bacterium 'Klebsiella pneumoniae', which is resistant to all antibiotics, is also particularly aggressive and dangerous.

Countries are losing US$492 billion in tax a year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens to underpay tax, the Tax Justice Network’s annual State of Tax Justice shows. Nearly half the losses (43%) are enabled by the eight countries that remain opposed to a UN tax convention: Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK and the US.

A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch [NPGP], threatening the local ecosystem and potentially the global carbon cycle.

COP after COP forces many thousands of delegates to cram in faraway places, only to add to the long lists of promises and pledges, of which only few ever see results. Next stop: oil-soaked Baku, Azerbaijan. The latest news: the COP CEO is lobbying for the oil industry.