Environment

Leonardo DiCaprio alongside a pink iguana featured in the Phoenix Species Project

Leonardo DiCaprio and others fund a USD 200 million project to recover 100 species on the brink of extinction, a genetic rescue plan

August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Colorful pollinator-friendly garden replacing a traditional front lawn in Florida.

A Florida homeowner turned lawn into pollinator sanctuary using cardboard and patience, proving that even boxes can start an ecosystem

August 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A man holds a large tambaqui fish while standing in the water.

A fish that has fed Amazon communities for generations is now officially threatened in Brazil, and a 43.4% projected decline has started a race to protect wild tambaqui without crushing local livelihoods

August 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Free-range laying hens roaming on grass around a mobile hen house.

Organic eggs across the UK generate twice the carbon of conventional farms, a finding that challenges the environmental grocery aisle

August 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Boats stranded in mud as extremely low water levels expose the riverbed along the Danube in Serbia.

The Danube retreats from Serbia and Croatia, revealing shipwrecks and halting river commerce in weeks of historic drought

August 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Large herd of cattle grazing across an expansive agricultural pasture.

One-third of global farmland drives two-thirds of environmental degradation, forcing a reckoning on agricultural concentration and land use reform

August 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Mature trees form a dense canopy over a residential street in Chicago, shading the road, sidewalks, and parked cars.

Chicago’s mature trees cut peak temperatures by up to eight degrees on hot days, a cooling effect that prevents heat deaths across neighborhoods with canopy coverage

August 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Aerial view of wetlands and lakes across the Siberian landscape in Russia.

Siberia’s summer methane emissions roughly doubled between 2010 and 2023, revealing how rapidly the region responds to warming and thaw

August 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Aerial view of a U.S. coastal wetland where marshes help protect shorelines from rising sea levels.

Eighty-four percent of U.S. coastal wetlands are not keeping pace with rising seas, leaving the nation’s defense against storm surge increasingly compromised

August 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Edgeboro Landfill in East Brunswick, New Jersey, where researchers monitored methane emissions over multiple seasons.

New Jersey landfill emitted five times as much methane in 2023 as officially reported, exposing a significant gap in environmental accounting

August 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Workers build Camp Century beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Cold War.

An abandoned Cold War base buried under Greenland ice contains radioactive waste, diesel fuel, and wastewater that could eventually mobilize if climate warming accelerates

August 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A brown bear with two cubs climbs and rubs against a tree in the French Pyrenees, captured by a wildlife camera.

French Pyrenees brown bears show signs of recovery with twelve cubs and a twenty-nine-year-old male recorded among six hundred eighty-five tracks and sightings

August 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
A giant European wels catfish caught and released in France's Saône River after a 20-minute fight.

Two anglers in France land a nearly seven-foot catfish in the Saône River after a twenty-minute fight and release it back alive

August 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Blood Falls on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, where iron-rich brine flows onto the surface and supports active marine-derived microorganisms.

For the first time, researchers found that Antarctica’s mysterious red falls are not blood but ocean, trapped for millennia beneath ice with a microbial ecosystem that could transform glacial science

August 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
deep-ocean-turbulent-mixing-climate-diagram

Tiny ocean swirls smaller than a coin alter climate, carbon, and nutrients within a single year through deep mixing of water layers

August 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
An orca swims with a sharp-tail sunfish during a predation event in the Gulf of California.

Orcas smash dead sunfish with precise timing in the Gulf of California, breaking them apart into pieces their young can eat without difficulty

August 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
JWST image of MRG-M0138 magnified by gravitational lensing, revealing a hidden supermassive black hole.

Six billion Suns weigh a hidden black hole in the young universe, revealed by how its gravity tugs on the surrounding stars in a distant galaxy

August 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Satellite view of Antarctic sea ice in the Southern Ocean, where Antarctic Bottom Water forms and begins its deep-ocean circulation.

Antarctic Bottom Water shrunk by 2.9 percent between 2002 and 2023, a hidden ocean mass that fills forty percent of the global sea and is losing volume

August 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
north-american-beaver-cutting-tree-tierra-del-fuego

In 1946, Argentina released just 20 beavers in Tierra del Fuego to start a fur trade, and the failed experiment now costs the country $66.6 million a year

August 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Orange peels covering a barren pasture in Costa Rica during the 1998 forest restoration experiment

In 1998, about 1,000 truckloads of orange peels were dumped on a barren pasture used for grazing livestock in Costa Rica, and what scientists discovered 15 years later was so unexpected that they had trouble recognizing the place

August 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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