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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Winds blowing across the Kuril Islands, between northern Japan and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, sent clouds spinning into compact coils and sprawling swirls on a spring day in 2025. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the vortices on April 14, 2025.
A first-of-its-kind study in Nature finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices—across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency—humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to levels seen in 2015.
Bordering Lake Erie and extending across Norfolk County, Long Point Region hosts many internationally recognized protected natural areas and is a refuge for many species at risk.
Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.
New laboratory research shows that when viruses attack a species that forms toxic algal blooms, those thick, blue-green slicks that choke waterways and that threaten ecosystems, drinking water, and public health, what results might be even worse than before the infection.
Net-zero homes use natural energy sources and are designed to use less energy and, as such, are considered important in the fight against climate change.
