Environment

During the first presidential debate, Biden alluded to the Inflation Reduction Act while Trump went on an incoherent rant about “H₂O”

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how researchers live and work on a U.S. icebreaker making its way through the waters of West Antarctica.

We discovered a strange rock in the Sahara we thought was a meterorite. Figuring out what it was grounded me back to Earth

Climate-related highway fixes and electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses are among the projects getting federal help in a new round of funding

Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity globally, data show for the first time

Wind shear and atmospheric instability have combined to create a brutal tornado season this year

Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all

Heat waves are getting hotter, more frequent and longer. But there are ways to keep yourself and your community cool.

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles

A fossil-fuel executive blames consumers for the climate crisis

Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could threaten our planet’s protective ozone layer

As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the coast as they go