Environmental News Network

Manual Lawn Mowers Are Making a Comeback
Powerful, loud mowers have been showing lawns who's boss for decades. But now contraptions that couldn't cut butter without a good shove are quietly -- really quietly -- making a comeback. >> Read the Full Article
Study Shows Primitive Fish Had Genetic Wiring for Limbs
Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ago, scientists said Wednesday. >> Read the Full Article
Study Shows that Climate Change Could Harm Crops
Climate change could drive many wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut into extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes necessary to help these food crops fight pests and drought, an international research group reported. >> Read the Full Article
China Says Environment Losing Out to Development
China must integrate environmental conservation into its development plans, officials said on Tuesday, as the environment ministry said pollution across the country was getting worse. >> Read the Full Article
Dozens of European Mammal Species Face Extinction, Conservation Group Says
Dozens of European mammals, including the Iberian lynx, the elusive Saiga antelope and the Mediterranean monk seal, face extinction unless immediate measures are taken to protect them, a conservation group said Tuesday. >> Read the Full Article
Remote Florida Site Eyed for New Green Town for the Environmentally Aware
Homes here could be heated or cooled using the Earth's natural underground temperature. Appliances would be run by solar-powered batteries. Houses would be oriented to avoid the summer sun. >> Read the Full Article
Referendum Over Highway Through Rare Peat Bog in Poland Ruled Invalid
A referendum on whether to build a highway through a rare peat bog protected by European Union habitat laws failed to muster the necessary voter turnout and has been declared invalid, election officials said Monday. >> Read the Full Article
Contaminated Salvador Lake Is Mystery Bird Magnet
An artificial lake in El Salvador brimming with sewage and industrial waste is mystifying scientists by attracting thousands of migratory and sea birds. >> Read the Full Article
Study Shows Southern Ocean Saturated with Carbon Dioxide
The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is so loaded with carbon dioxide that it can barely absorb any more, so more of the gas will stay in the atmosphere to warm up the planet, scientists reported Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
Scientists Advise Capturing Spotted Owls
A team of Pacific Northwest scientists has recommended capturing many or all of British Columbia's remaining northern spotted owls and breeding them at zoos throughout the region in an effort to prevent their extinction. >> Read the Full Article