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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact9 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'3 Comments
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Western states face above-normal wildfire threats this summer. New maps reveal which areas are most at risk.Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.
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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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California declared war on smog in the 1970s. The knock-on effects were huge.A professor of environmental law explores the 1970 Clean Air Act and it how it has effected car emissions and smog in the decades since.
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Deadly, vivid-green mass sprawls across South African reservoirEarth from space A 2022 satellite photo shows a thick mat of blooming algae and invasive aquatic plants spreading across the surface of the reservoir at South Africa's Hartebeespoort Dam. The verdant mass is both toxic and capable of depleting the water's oxygen levels.
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Antarctica hides huge caches of gold, silver, copper and iron. As the ice melts, countries may race to harvest them.Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.
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Earth's energy imbalance is much more extreme than climate models show — but scientists aren't sure whyFor reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives from the sun and the amount the planet radiates into space.
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Extreme wildfires, droughts and storms could happen even under moderate global warming, study findsNew research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even we limit heating to 3.6 F above preindustrial levels.
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China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the ArcticChina's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change.
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Scientists discover potentially huge freshwater reservoir hidden beneath Great Salt LakeResearchers have found a layer of fresh water beneath Utah's Great Salt Lake that reaches up to 2.5 miles deep and could turn out to be as big, or bigger, than the lake.
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