8 June 2023
Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. In a briefing, a minister for the Ukraine government explained how it is also harming ecosystems and farms
8 June 2023
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts across the northern US, including in New York City
7 June 2023
Pressure on the San Andreas fault from a now-dried lake could have been sufficient to trigger past major earthquakes in California. The lake’s disappearance could explain why there have been no such quakes for nearly 300 years
3 June 2023
People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are increasingly exposed to extreme heat due to climate change and the urban heat island effect, but covering homes in a reflective film significantly cut indoor temperatures
2 June 2023
An oil company in China has started drilling a hole that would be the deepest in the country and among the deepest in the world
1 June 2023
A survey of bacteria and archaea living in 99 coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean found these ecosystems may contain more microbes than current estimates for the whole planet – suggesting everywhere else on Earth does too
22 May 2023
After months of negotiations, California, Nevada and Arizona have agreed to reduce the water they take from the Colorado river, but these drastic cuts are only a temporary solution to the water crisis facing the western US
22 May 2023
A 1987 treaty to ban ozone-destroying gases helped delay the first Arctic summer with no ice, which is now projected to happen by 2037 at the earliest
17 May 2023
Researchers have discovered a long-standing connection between temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and the health of arid grasslands in the US Southwest – but climate change seems to have broken it
17 May 2023
An argument that has been raging among biologists for over a decade – whether comb jellies or sponges were the first group to split off from the common ancestor of all animals – has a new twist, thanks to an analysis of genetic patterns
