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Watch bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forestResearchers have captured first-of-its-kind footage of a wolf attack on European bison in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest. The recording shifts our understanding of predator-prey interactions in this region.
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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impactInterview Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
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Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion peopleAn abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.
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'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study findsThe San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.
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'I never thought we'd see one alive': Elusive goblin shark captured on camera for the first timeResearchers have filmed goblin sharks in the deep sea for the first time. Until now, these sharks had been seen alive only after being hauled up to the surface with fishing lines.
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Scientists discover giant, fan-shaped structure deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice SheetA mysterious geological structure that resembles a human hand with outstretched fingers has been revealed beneath East Antarctica. The discovery shows the frozen continent still hides many geological secrets.
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Sea ice loss in the Arctic has triggered a critical tipping point that's destroying the food chainResearchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.
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Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient rivers around 3.6 million years ago.
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War has brought Iran's water crisis to a breaking point: 'Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change'Science spotlight Iran is experiencing "water bankruptcy" that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the current war is exacerbating the crisis.
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Fingal's Cave: Scotland's 'cave of melody' where eerie echoes bounce off pillars of solidified lavaFingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal columns of volcanic rock and astonishing acoustics.
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The Appalachian Mountains hold enough lithium to make 500 billion cellphones, researchers discoverResearchers with the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the ancient Appalachians mountain system holds 2.5 million tons of the critical element lithium.
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Scientists discover deadly, highly venomous box jellyfish near Singapore's 'Island of Death Behind'Researchers identified a new species of box jellyfish and recorded a surprising range expansion for the Thai sea wasp after analyzing the morphology and DNA of a handful of jellies in Singapore.
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Antarctica’s sudden sea ice loss is one of the most extreme and confusing events in the modern climate record. Scientists now know why it's happening.In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that period.
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950-year-old burial of a pet dingo reveals unique archaeological evidence of humans ritually 'feeding' a graveArchaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji people and "fed" for the next 500 years with river mussels.
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Don Juan Pond: Antarctica's salty, syrupy lake that never freezes, even when it's minus 58 FDon Juan Pond is a mysterious lake in Antarctica that contains so much calcium chloride, it doesn't freeze in subzero temperatures.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study findsNew research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants.
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'It cuts both ways': Positive tipping points can restore wrecked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton saysINTERVIEW Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive, self-propelling changes in nature.
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Thríhnúkagígur: The only volcano on Earth where you can descend into a magma chamberThríhnúkagígur is a volcano near Reykjavík in Iceland with an empty magma chamber decorated with vivid colors that scientists and tourists can access via an open cable elevator.
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'A completely new reality': Bolder measures are needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado RiverCities fed by the Colorado River have taken huge steps to reduce their water consumption over the past few decades, yet water shortages are projected to grow more intense. What can be done?
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'Iran's Maldives' could drown in oil due to spills from air strikes, satellites showAir strikes on oil facilities and oil tankers in the Persian Gulf have unleashed what is set to become an ecological catastrophe, satellite images show.
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Florida is facing its most intense drought in 15 years. Here's how it got so bad and how long it will last.More than 70% of the state is under "extreme" to "exceptional" drought conditions, and other parts of the U.S. Southeast are similarly affected. But why, and what are the impacts?
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Ancient process that created rare earth elements discovered — and it could help us locate desperately needed depositsA new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances that are released when one tectonic plate dives beneath another.
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Aoshima: Japan's tiny 'Cat Island' where felines hugely outnumber humansOnce a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after the felines with the help of food donations from around Japan.
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'In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself': Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resourceLive Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and recipient of the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, about "water bankruptcy" and what countries should do to avoid catastrophe.
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