Latest Environment Stories
Is acid rain forming from the Ohio train derailment site?
Watch these tiny bugs catapult urine with their butts
Beavers, snails, and elephants are top grads from nature’s college of engineering
Why one California beach town is cracking down on balloons
Scientists just rediscovered a rare, fungi-eating ‘fairy lantern’
This tiny robot grips like a gecko and scoots like an inchworm
Camels and sharks have small, sneaky antibodies that can help fight human diseases
Even the cool forests of the Pacific Northwest face the danger of extreme heat
Light pollution is erasing the stars in the sky—here’s why we should care
Here are the world’s worst and best car commutes, ranked
Scientists may have solved an old Puebloan mystery by strapping giant logs to their foreheads
These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels
Why your community’s next solar panel project should be above a parking lot
What ancient tsunamis can teach us about future disasters
A gator-faced fish shaped like a torpedo stalked rivers 360 million years ago
The best dog DNA tests of 2023
The FDA says it’s ok to call almond milk ‘milk’ (for now)
The social lives of cows are remarkably sophisticated
Coast-to-coast storm causing extreme weather across the country
The rise of green hydrogen in Latin America
The ability for cities to survive depends on smart, sustainable architecture
These beetles sniff out fungus-infected trees to find their next target
4 of the best homes for off-the-grid living
Why some single-use plastic water bottles could be banned in Hawaii
La Niña is exacerbating drought conditions for millions
Slow-moving shoreline creatures are sitting ducks for climate change
Human interactions can drastically change wolf pack dynamics
An open-source project makes it easier to spot rare fish eggs
A torpedo-like robot named Icefin is giving us the full tour of the ‘Doomsday’ glacier
A group of humpback whales is choosing violence
The train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous
Benefit your neighborhood bats with this DIY bat house
Watch the world’s fastest fish on an epic tuna hunt
A jellyfish sting treatment that actually works
Researchers are stuffing drones into taxidermy birds to make them seem more ‘natural’
Why Danish citizen scientists were on a quest to find the oldest European hedgehog
Popular chimpanzees set hand-holding trends for the whole group
Gender reveal parties are turning nature pink and blue
Singapore’s new plan to fight mosquito-borne diseases: bug-infecting bacteria
Snakes can actually hear really well
Toxic train derailment in East Palestine, OH highlights issues facing America’s railways
The endangered Eurasian lynx might never recover fully in France
Greenland’s isolated ‘Last Ice Area’ is vanishing
How thinning could help prevent wildfires
Millions of dead crabs ended up in the deep sea. Scientists still aren’t sure why.
EV companies call out their own weaknesses in new clean energy report
These clever cockatoos carry around toolkits to get to food faster
Are reusable takeout boxes worth the resources needed to make them?
IBM’s AI has a new job: sorting through NASA’s giant stream of Earth and weather images
Antarctic fieldwork may finally reckon with sexual harassment claims
Smarter fertilizer use could shrink our agricultural carbon footprint
A new solution could keep old wind turbine blades out of landfills
Citizen science is another great form of nature therapy
Why giraffe sex is a tall order and hinges on pee
A new ingredient could revolutionize white bread
How hunting deer became a battle cry in conservation
BP made $28 billion last year, and now it’s backtracking on its climate goals
Moondust could chill out our overheated Earth, some scientists predict
Raising male offspring comes at a high price for orca mothers
In the latest State of the Union, Biden highlights infrastructure, chips, and healthcare
6 things to know before deciding to raise backyard chickens
The secrets to fighting the next pandemic could be in fruit bats
Bacteria and fungi are the first to start rebuilding charred forests
This robot eel could be the start of a new breed of ‘voxel’ robots
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