From BBC 1 hour ago ShareSave Esme Stallard Climate and science reporter, BBC News ShareSave Karol Serewis/Getty Images An $88m (£65m) satellite designed to detect releases of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas production, has been lost in…

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. After six bill increases in the last three years, Georgia Power rates will now stay the same for the time being.  Under a deal approved…

From BBC 4 hours ago ShareSave Pallab Ghosh ShareSave Liverpool John Moores University. Nature A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient…

From BBC 7 hours ago ShareSave Tim Dodd Climate and science reporter ShareSave Getty Images From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change,…

From BBC 20 hours ago ShareSave Mark Poynting, Jess Carr and Phil Leake BBC Climate and Verify data journalism teams ShareSave Getty Images If you live in north-west England or Yorkshire, you are already in an official state of drought,…

From NPR The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States. (Image credit: Ethan Swope) Read the full article from NPR

From BBC 6 hours ago ShareSave Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News ShareSave Getty Images A second spell of temperatures well over 30C before we’ve even got to the end of June – how unusual is this and how much…

From NPR The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren’t America’s to mine. (Image credit: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU)…

On a vast property in Lee County, in the heart of southwest Georgia, Tyler Huber raises sheep.  As the flock grazes, the sheep need somewhere to take a break from the Georgia sun. “It is incredibly hot, the sun is…