Environment

Close-up of a crystallized dinosaur egg fossil from Qinglongshan in central China, part of a study dating the site to around 85 million years ago.

85-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are rewriting Earth’s climate history and shaking up paleontology

April 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Construction work on Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor rail line across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Mexico pulls a “land-based Panama Canal” out of its hat: 303 km across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to connect the Pacific and the Gulf without passing through locks

April 23, 2026 at 11:39 AM
A side-by-side comparison of a standard coastal elevation map and an adjusted map showing significantly higher sea levels and flood risks.

An error in hundreds of sea level studies could change the map of coastal risks

April 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Sunlight filters through dense tropical forest trees in Panama, where scientists studied how drought shifts root growth deeper underground

What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon

April 22, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Surface fault rupture and ground damage from an earthquake in California showing lateral displacement

California may be overlooking a type of earthquake that is much more destructive than it appeared

April 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Joro spider with yellow and black markings hanging in its web in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A giant, invasive spider is already moving through one of the most famous parks in the United States

April 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM
View of Earth from space used to illustrate satellite tracking of global vegetation and seasonal greening patterns

What satellites have observed about the spread of vegetation could change agriculture in several countries

April 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Red streetlights illuminate a road and surrounding trees in Gladsaxe, Denmark, in a bat-friendly lighting project

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats

April 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Close-up of honey bees illustrating research on how bee gut DNA can reveal urban ecosystem health and biodiversity

Scientists are studying the digestive tracts of wild bees, and what they’re discovering is forcing us to rethink why some parks appear green but are far less beneficial than we thought

April 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Two killer whales swim side by side at the ocean surface in a photo used to illustrate research on possible orca-on-orca predation

A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other

April 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Two Atlantic puffins standing on a grassy cliff in Iceland with wings spread

Farewell to the harbor lights: light pollution could wipe out 40% of the world’s puffin population

April 20, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Workers operate industrial machinery processing banana pseudostems into fiber pulp for tissue paper production inside a large factory

The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials

April 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Arctic landscape with snowy mountains reflected in calm water, illustrating the Barents Sea region where Atlantic water is pushing farther into the Arctic.

The Arctic mystery that had puzzled oceanographers for 40 years now has an explanation, and it is not wind force

April 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Pink fairy armadillo partially emerging from sandy soil in Mendoza reserve

The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise

April 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
European eels stranded in a drying riverbed near Valencia as drought leaves shallow, isolated pools

2,000 eels that had traveled 4,350 miles from the Sargasso Sea died at 98.6 °F… just 11 miles from Valencia because the river had turned into a puddle and no one lifted a finger

April 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Wolf swimming across Lake Lucerne in Switzerland during tracked migration

A wolf tracked by GPS did something no one expected in Switzerland: it jumped into Lake Lucerne, and its journey has experts baffled

April 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Close-up of mosquitoes feeding on human skin, illustrating why some people attract more bites than others

Goodbye to the “sweet blood” theory: a 3D model reveals that what attracts mosquitoes is the cloud of CO₂ you exhale and the color contrast of your clothing, and the mosquito trap industry is already adapting on the fly

April 17, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Two tricahue parrots near a cactus, one perched and one landing in flight, a scene linked to the birds’ return to Río Clarillo National Park.

After a 15-year absence, nests of tricahue parrots have reappeared in Río Clarillo, and the discovery confirms that a return that seemed impossible is already underway

April 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Still image of a sleeper shark swimming in deep Antarctic waters near the South Shetland Islands, captured by a baited seafloor camera.

For the first time in history, a shark has been filmed in Antarctic waters, and the scene raises a disturbing question about what is changing at the southernmost tip of the planet

April 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Close-up of a jaguar resting with its head on its paw, an image tied to Bolivia’s plan to return rehabilitated jaguar Yaguara to the wild.

Bolivia is about to release a jaguar into the wild for the first time, and this initiative could forever change big cat conservation in South America

April 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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