Latest Environment Stories
The best way to save forests? Legally recognize Indigenous lands.
This heat-seeking robot looks and moves like a vine
No one can predict exactly where birds go, but this mathematical model gets close
Unicorns do exist—as a cave fish in China
Why we shouldn’t get too excited about bioplastics
Indonesia activates a disaster-relief chatbot after destructive floods
Animals at the Dallas Zoo keep vanishing from their enclosures
Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines
Songbird species team up to ‘mob’ owls and other predators
It’s in the rules to play dirty in this new soil-themed board game
What to do when your fishing lure hooks a bird, otter—or gator
When humans and dolphins fish together, they both win
The best home weather stations of 2023
The best home wind turbines of 2023
Gnarly pink waves crash near San Diego
New factory retrofit could reduce a steel plant’s carbon emissions by 90 percent
The best solar generators for 2023
The best KONG dog toys of 2023
The best dog training treats of 2023
What the ‘B’ label on your favorite drinks and snacks means
When wolves hunt otters on this Alaskan island, deer suffer
EV adoption doesn’t lighten energy costs for all American families
These fuzzy burrowers don’t need oxytocin to fall in love
What it takes to build and maintain Alaska’s icy highways
Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it’s wetter
Chewy is doggedly trying to expand into pet telehealth
Fun or feud? These are the tell-tail signs that a catfight has gone sour.
Why seaweed farming could be the next big thing in sustainability
A chunk of ice twice the size of New York City broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf
Scientists are still banging out theories about how dinosaurs had sex
These primate ancestors were totally chill with a colder climate
One wormy Triassic fossil could fill a hole in the evolutionary story of amphibians
Persisting winter storm conditions bring snow, tornadoes, and thunder to Eastern US
When wind turbines kill bats and birds, these scientists want the carcasses
The next generation of US nuclear plants could be tiny but powerful
An oil spill on this fuel-rich coast could be a supply chain catastrophe
The best dog collars of 2023
How climate change board games could turn play into action
How a peculiar parasitic plant relies on a rare Japanese rabbit
Acrobatic beetle bots could inspire the latest ‘leap’ in agriculture
How companies greenwash their plastic pollution
Adolescent chimpanzees might be less impulsive than human teens
A Cold War spy plane now tracks humanity’s greatest threat for NASA
Stowaway mice carry DNA evidence of an ancient black market fur trade
Plastic, pollution, and prescription drugs are making fish act erratically
Mexico bans solar geoengineering tests after US startup’s unsanctioned ‘science project’
Meteorite hunters lug a 16.7-pound space rock from Antarctic ice
Squirrels gamble, too—but with their genes
Oyster mushrooms release nerve gas to kill worms before eviscerating them
13 otherworldly photos that were actually taken on Earth
Everything you need to know about how heat pumps work
It’s not a UFO—this drone is scooping animal DNA from the tops of trees
Many popular carbon offsets don’t actually counteract emissions, study says
This robot gets its super smelling power from locust antennae
A virgin birth in Shedd Aquarium’s shark tank is baffling biologists
Trilobites may have jousted with head ‘tridents’ to win mates
Bug brains are inspiring new collision avoidance systems for cars
Swiss scientists successfully used lasers to divert lightning bolts
Freshwater fish are loaded with ‘forever chemicals’
EPA updates emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles for the first time in 20 years
Toddlers may be wired to help their dog friends
The plan to save Western salt lakes from biting the dust
Connecting national parks could help generations of wildlife thrive
Bush rats are back to reclaim their place in this Australian park
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