The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown

An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese opened Climate Week NYC on Monday by leaning on Australia's renewables progress: massive rooftop solar uptake, ten thousand home batteries a week, enough wind and solar...

Seaweed forests are widely viewed as natural climate solutions, yet warming oceans are driving their rapid decline. This Essay reveals that losses are outpacing restoration efforts by orders of magnit...

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Photo: AndyHi8 on Flickr, Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0) The latest official figures show an ongoing increase in the reported number of pheasants being br…

To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.

But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route

In this Perspective, Haubrock et al. argue that today’s scientific structures constrain creativity and that strategic conformity is a rational response. They discuss how this holds back early-career r...

Zero-deforestation commitments have transformed the palm oil sector since 2015, yet their effectiveness remains unquantified. Here, we produced 10-m resolution global maps that identify old-growth eve...

Across the world, communities resisting mining are not only saying no to destruction, but yes to life. This paper is an articulation of how communities protect their territories and build lives of connection and thriving - for both present and future generations.

BackgroundHuman poisoning by pesticides has long been seen as a severe public health problem. As early as 1990, a task force of the World Health Organization...

Balancing food and energy security is a key priority for Indonesia, but the associated land conversion could induce deforestation. This study examines how best to optimize energy security (biodiesel b...

NOAA experts provide data, tools and information to help people understand, prepare for and adapt to our changing climate.

Prof Pierre Akilimali, who heads DR Congo’s response to an outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,700 people, says tackling the disease requires trust and respect

In this paper, we caution against the tendency in climate discourse to equate hope with progress. While hope is often framed as essential for motivating change, its uncritical celebration can under...

A Ceres analysis shows that data centers’ indirect water footprint from power plants dwarfs direct cooling.

Abstract. The central Congo Basin peatlands span 167 600 km2 and are the world's largest tropical peatlands. Hundreds of thousands of people live in the vi

Modelled future emissions pathways compliant with limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C show the need to avoid expansion of oil and gas supply. However, several countries are examining reversals t...

The daily global average sea surface temperature (SST) has reached its highest level on record, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed t...

Countries across the world are bracing for what is increasingly certain to be a historic El Niño, with latest modeling suggesting the 2026-2027 event will be the strongest ever measured, possibly brea...

How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.

How are the moral relations between communities and the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) being reconfigured as forests fragment and land-use change accelerates across Sumatra's conservation l...

CMIP6 captures the broad spatial pattern of p99(Tmax) versus Berkeley Earth, supporting projections of record-like heat Tropical extremes amplify: TDM and TDX warm ∼30%–40% faster than TTL in SSP...

Research on agricultural consolidation tends to equate corporate control with the dominance of a few large firms. We take an alternative approach that examines control through the explosive growth of....

Updated figures released by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) suggest the UK's arable harvest is now expected to be even smaller than previously forecast.

The centrist coalition that traditionally shaped EU laws is now colluding with MEPs from the AfD and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, says academic Alberto Alemanno

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.

I am not a specialist in atmospheric methane chemistry, and this piece required more reading outside my usual territory than most of what I write. What I found left me more surprised than anything els...

Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK

The scars of bottom trawling are still visible on seamounts in Chile’s Juan Fernández Archipelago, even 25 years after the fishing practice took place in the area, according to a new study. In 2024, s...

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

Projections for 265 common bird and 144 common butterfly species across Europe under multiple sustainability scenarios, including those of existing conservation objectives, find no scenario in which t...

Whitley Awards support grassroots conservation leaders in the Global South. Through funding, training and profile they help conservationists scale up effective projects that are founded in science and...

The dire forecast has sparked calls to factor domestic food production into the current debate about Britain's national security, as it currently relies on imports for 40% of all food consumed.

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

Warming-driven global rice yield losses were underestimated by half due to underestimated heat stress.