Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource | Water
I Putu Partayasa pushes his fingers into the soil as he squats at the edge of a rice…
British couple named among 13 killed in Spanish wildfires | Wildfires
A British couple have been named among the 13 people killed by wildfires in Spain, as authorities race…
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mass extinction Earth has ever known
The end-Permian extinction was not a single volcano exploding on one bad day. It was a long volcanic…
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes: the first came as the planet cooled, glaciers spread and sea levels collapsed; then the ice retreated, the seas warmed and lost their oxygen, killing many of the species that had survived the cold
The Late Ordovician extinction, close to the Ordovician-Silurian boundary about 443 million years ago, is usually read as…
Scientists Are Testing a New Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live on the Ocean Floor
The ocean covers 71% of the planet, and humans have colonized only a small fraction of it. That…
Dolphin deaths in South Australia spike after algal bloom decimates food sources | Marine life
The number of dead dolphins washing up on South Australian beaches spiked in 2025, according to long-term data…
When the financial industry fails you, AI has your back
Open this photo in gallery: AI already does something the financial advice business has been unable to manage…
‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water | Puerto Rico
Jonathan Collazo owns two restaurants in a bustling section of San Juan, which has been plagued by water…
First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery | Water
From the village of Copapayo, Noel Avalos recalls the morning they ran to the shore of Lake Suchitlán,…
40 groups contest move to dilute environmental oversight of big projects
Some 40 environmental, health, and other civil society organizations appealed to the Interior Ministry and the National Planning…
Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’ | Environment policy
The government’s plan to protect and restore nature in England by 2030 has been condemned as “pathetic” and…