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Oceans globally recorded their hottest July ever last month, according to a new analysis.

Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds.

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined "harm" as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend.

In "Land Less" — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land…

In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power.

El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the U.N.

A landmark study of the towering ash trees that grow in the mountains of Victoria, Australia, which was launched in the 1980s, boosted arguments for clearcutting the iconic trees.

Since the colonial era, India has regarded its native scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest.

In May, a group of fishers on the Indonesian island of Biak were dismantling an unexploded shell left over from World War II when the device went off, reportedly killing seven people and injuring 19 others.

In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.

In a summer of record heat waves, France and Spain are now facing wildfires that have forced the evacuations of more than 300,000 people.

The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.

Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger.

Last year, the acreage burned in the Brazilian Amazon reached its lowest level in at least four decades.

Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the West African nation of Benin, scientists have at last found the reef.

As global warming fuels more extreme rainfall in Appalachia, new research finds a link between flooding and opioid deaths.

The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth.

A Japanese steel giant has pledged billions in new investment in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River Valley, raising hopes that it would clean up pollution from its steel mills in the region.

Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As China erects the largest hydropower installation on Earth atop an active fault line in the Himalayas, Chinese scientists are calling on engineers to guard against risks from earthquakes.

Western Europe recorded more than 10,000 excess deaths during an unprecedented June heat wave, an analysis finds.

Four Ugandan farmers have launched a suit in the U.K.

As EV sales boom and grids seek more energy storage, researchers are racing to develop batteries that are cheaper, more powerful, and less reliant on hard-to-source materials.

Pervasive plastic contamination and unreliable methods have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body.

A vast system of Atlantic currents that delivers warmth to northern Europe is at risk of collapse, according to a growing body of research.

Off the eastern coast of Italy, large numbers of bottlenose dolphins are looking to fishing trawlers as a source of food, a sign that dolphins may be struggling to feed themselves in waters depleted by overfishing.

As residential batteries have become more energy dense, cheaper, and smaller, more households are storing their excess solar power.

As extreme heat worsens pollution, a network of 277 monitors will identify pollution hot spots.

In mountain regions from the Andes to the Himalayas, Indigenous people see the retreat of glaciers as a sign that they have lost the favor of their gods or ancestors.

Despite years of opposition, a 900-mile crude oil pipeline through East Africa is about to be completed, and its environmental and social risks are coming into focus.

Much like human languages, the vocalizations of sperm whales evolve over time, as disparate populations of whales develop distinct dialects.

Europe is sweltering through an intense heat wave that is setting temperature records in the U.K. and France.

As the Iran War has driven up fuel costs in Africa, demand for electric motorbikes has grown.

Rising temperatures are set to drive up emissions from wildfires, fermenting wetlands, and melting permafrost, but these feedback loops are poorly captured in climate models.

In January 2025, the Trump administration began shutting down projects within the EPA’s independent science division that touched on climate change and environmental justice.

Researchers are increasingly digitizing plant and fungi specimens and using A.I. to analyze them, work that is transforming conservation science, according to a new report.

In Albania, a mass protest movement has emerged to challenge a plan, spearheaded by Jared Kushner, to build a sprawling resort along the delta of the last wild river in Europe.

A new paper details how the remnants of dead organisms strongly influence the fate of survivors.

At one time, kelp forests — which shelter fish, slow erosion, and sequester carbon — grew along a third of the world’s coastlines.

Last month, for the first time in the U.S., solar generated more electricity than coal, a reflection of both the rapid adoption of renewable power and the declining fortunes of America's aging fleet of coal power plants.

Lost to science for more than 70 years, the black-lored waxbill was only recently rediscovered in a marshy region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In U.S. cities, ridership on public transit is growing as the Iran War keeps gasoline prices high.

Former crew members on squid fishing expeditions report environmental destruction and labor abuses, due to a regulatory vacuum.

A growing body of research shows how air pollution, fertilizers, and fungicides are altering the chemical signals that plants and animals use to communicate.

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Tiny particles of rubber cast off by car tires, which have long been known to harm wildlife, may also pose a risk to humans, according to a new study.

Global heating has “fundamentally altered” the climate of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is exposing millions of hajj pilgrims to extreme and dangerous heat even in months outside summer, a new analysis has found.

African countries are increasingly looking to renewable energy to meet growing power demand.

In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, whales and other marine mammals rely on krill to survive.

At a time when other public officials and the media are talking less about climate change, Sheldon Whitehouse remains fiercely outspoken.