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The changes and wonders of the natural world—and how human interaction influences animals, the ocean, and the rest of the environment.

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Best dog vitamins
Environment

The best dog vitamins to keep your pooch healthy

By Maddy Morris

a plastic bag and other garbage on a shoreline
Environment

Plastic bag bans work, new study shows

By Lauren Leffer

a woman douses herself with water from a plastic bottle on a hot, sunny day
Environment

What is a heat dome?

By Laura Baisas

A factory on the edge of a cliff
Technology

Certain AI prompts generate 50x more CO₂ than others

By Mack DeGeurin

Air conditioner in house window on Summer day.
Science

New paint ‘sweats’ to keep buildings cool

By Andrew Paul

a beige and brown moth on a stone
Environment

Migrating moths can read the stars

By Lauren Leffer

illustration of a large lizard with a bulging head carrying a large egg
Science

Bones of a raccoon-sized prehistoric lizard sat in a jar for 20 years

By Laura Baisas

Huge wave breaking. Ocean spray is thrown into the air. World famous surf break named Jaws on the Northshore of Maui, Hawaii.
Environment

What’s the formula for the ‘perfect wave’?

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

a long black amphibian with feathered gills called an axolotl swims in a fish tank
Environment

Axolotl mucus peptides attack breast cancer cells and MRSA

By Laura Baisas

A Guatemalan tiger rump tarantula (Davus pentaloris) in a terrarium with reflections.
Environment

Tarantulas adapt their running style after losing legs

By Laura Baisas

Fuzzy beetle on red flower
Environment

Most bugs can’t see red—but these beetles can

By Andrew Paul

Large truck towing ANITA atmospheric survey system in Antarctica
Science

Physicists can’t explain mysterious radio wave emissions in Antarctica

By Andrew Paul

A great hammerhead shark swimming close to the surface in Bimini, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.
Environment

Young hammerhead sharks love Biscayne Bay. Leave them alone, humans.

By Laura Baisas

Cedar Creek in Congaree National Park, South Carolina, showing old growth bottomland hardwood forest.
Environment

This National Park uses a ‘Skeeter Meter’ to inform visitors about mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

an anaconda coiled sitting on straw
Environment

Q&A: How anacondas, chickens, and locals may be able to coexist in the Amazon

By Frontiers

a leopad seal with its mouth wide open
Environment

15 riveting images from the 2025 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition

By Popular Science Team

a weedy seadragon swimming. they have long snouts and raised backs
Environment

Weedy seadragons in the running for nature’s best dads

By Margherita Bassi

a baby skunk is held by a person wearing blue latex gloves
Environment

Rescued baby skunks enjoy a good song

By Margherita Bassi

a male river otter standing on snow
Environment

Escaped river otter takes his destiny into his own (tiny) hands

By Margherita Bassi

an adult osprey looks on as the heads of three chicks pop out over a nest
Environment

Three osprey chicks hatch in 500-pound steel nest boxes

By Laura Baisas