US Supreme Court rejects BP’s challenge to compensation over oil spill

Company had alleged fraudulent claims for compensation by parties unaffected by the disaster

Fish take oil spills to heart

2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may have caused heart defects in tuna species, reducing their numbers

MTBE woes

Mexico takes ethanol route to get rid of MTBE

US coast may open for drilling

Business as usual

The EU has not learnt anything from its failure at Cancun

Brown oil and silvery sheen

DAHR JAMAIL visited Louisiana fisheries on harvest day but found the catch sordid

Crackdown: Egg seizures at US-Mexico border go up 300%

Median cost of a dozen eggs in the US was $4.25 in January 2023 — over twice what it was a year ago

Monarch butterfly numbers rise even as scientists sound extinction alarm

Monarch numbers rose to 56. 5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year

Awesome monarchs

Migration cycle of the fragile monarch butterfly extends beyond its average lifespan

Monarch massacre

Loggers in Mexico accused of wiping out millions of butterflies

On trial

Is time ticking for coal

Business-as-usual will not work to combat climate crisis. Difficult targets must be set to reduce carbon emissions

Waiting for the mud

Mexican vulcanologists are trying to track the path that destructive mudslides, the fallout of an impending volcanic eruption, might take

Hit by slime, Caribbean corals at risk of extinction

Loss of algae grazers could wipe out the corals in the next 20 years

Fast-developing nations still home to half of world’s hungry and malnourished people: report

Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children

Edged to extinction

Despite all our efforts, we may really not be able to save those rainforest fragments

Salt of the Earth

Rock of great hope

Local rock formations help Mexicans to remove arsenic from water

Battlelines drawn

Farm trade: it's developing countries vs EU-US

What the biofuel goldrush means for food security

Human factor in swine flu

According to report

Poor man’s burden

Developing countries shoulder the clean-up responsibility, yet it is not enough

An unsteady first step

Trading in energy-efficiency certificates faces major hurdles

Dying oceans

Oxygen-deprived zones in oceans across the world have emerged as a huge threat to marine ecosystems