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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'6 Comments
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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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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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'River in the Sky': China's doomed plan to create a 'cloud seeding corridor' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisisScience Spotlight China's willingness to invest billions in a quixotic, doomed plan to create a permanent river in the sky reveals the lengths it is willing to go to to engineer its way out of a climate crisis.
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A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming backAn area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.
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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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