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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact12 Comments -
The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels5 Comments -
War has brought Iran's water crisis to a breaking point: 'Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change'5 Comments
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Scientists find thousands of earthquakes in a perfectly straight line in Alaska, revealing a hidden 'microplate'Tiny earthquakes that emerge in a strikingly linear pattern revealed the Yakutat microplate, which may be focusing volcano and earthquake activity.
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Satellites reveal Earth has a surprising symmetry in the way it reflects light — and it might be tied to the El Niño cycleEven though the Eastern and Western halves of Earth are fairly different, they reflect the same amount of sunlight, a new study finds.
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'Unequivocal evidence' of Earth's oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion yearsA new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists previously claimed was 3.47 billion years old.
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NASA satellite captures wave of warm water hundreds of miles long that signals a devastatingly strong El NiñoThis year's El Niño is on track to be among the strongest ever recorded.
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'If there's any country that will do it, it's China': Why is China diverting some of the world's mightiest rivers thousands of miles?Science Spotlight People in China's northern megacities have 74 times less fresh water than the average American — so the Chinese government has built the world's largest water diversion project, with the most ambitious and dangerous route still to come.
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Bizarre 'bull's-eye' cloud rings appear above erupting volcano on Atlantic islandEarth from space A 2021 satellite photo shows an unusual series of concentric cloud rings that appeared directly above an erupting volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
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What will the Amazon rainforest look like in 100 years?Life's Little Mysteries The health of the Amazon rainforest is key to the global climate, but many dangers threaten to make it unrecognizable in the future.
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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact
Interview 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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Rainforest quiz: Can you sort Earth's largest rainforests from biggest to smallest?Quiz From the sprawling Amazon to the lesser-known tropical forests, see if you can correctly rank these rainforests by their total area.
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