Summer floods in Pakistan have killed a thousand people and displaced millions more. As warming supercharges monsoon rains, scientists say that Pakistan is more vulnerable to climate change than any other nation.

Sea life is thriving on sunken ships and unexploded bombs that were discarded after World War I and II, new research finds.

A review of hundreds of studies finds that plastic additives pose a serious threat to children, raising the risk of disability and disease long into adulthood. Plastics are associated with heart disease, obesity, asthma, and autism, among other issues.

In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people. The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.

Clean energy jobs grew three times faster than the rest of the economy last year. But growth slowed markedly compared to the previous year as clean tech firms braced for a shift in U.S. energy policy.

Under Trump, new liquefied natural gas terminals are moving ahead, with exports expected to double by 2030. But as the U.S. pressures trade partners to buy more natural gas, analysts warn of the looming risks of an LNG boom.

Extending power lines to reach far-flung customers can be costly and a fire hazard, so some utilities are building remote grids using solar and batteries. via @canarymedia.com

The retreat of the Alsek Glacier in Alaska has created a new island.

A report finds the Republican spending bill will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade. via @wired.com

Explosive hurricanes and searing wildfires are pushing U.S. insurers to the limit, upending housing markets, and even reshaping the makeup of some communities. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Gil Gaul reports:

Western wildfires have produced massive plumes of smoke that clouded eastern skies. But a new study finds that heat from fires is also reshaping weather in ways that are curbing pollution on the East Coast.

In a new interview, journalist Saabira Chaudhuri explains how the plastics industry persuaded consumers to embrace disposability — no matter the costs.

Some U.S. stores are selling illicit meat from endangered sharks under false labels, an investigation finds.

Equipped with cheap Chinese solar panels, many developing countries are leapfrogging the U.S. in the shift to clean energy.

Ahead of a major biodiversity summit set for Armenia, the country is cracking down on the practice of keeping wild bears in captivity. Rescuers are freeing Syrian brown bears from hellish conditions and bringing them to a rehab center.

Warming made the hot, dry weather that gave rise to recent wildfires in Portugal and Spain 40 times more likely.

Even as the U.S. guts support for renewables, the world is still pushing ahead on solar, with installations up 64 percent in the first half of this year.

Indonesia is fast-tracking a plan to turn 7 million acres of rainforest and wetland into rice and sugarcane plantations. Critics say it is the largest deforestation project on Earth and will upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous people.

The restoration of bison to the Yellowstone region has had a remarkable impact on grasslands, a new study finds.

Animals from aardvarks to bats to monkeys rub shoulders in underground burrows, creating troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species. via @biographic.bsky.social

Every year the Natural History Museum in London honors the best wildlife photography from around the world. See a selection of this year's finalists.

U.S. drilling sites aren't just leaking methane, but also a host of toxic chemicals that threaten the health of those living nearby. A new interactive map shows the impact of hundreds of major leaks.

Hundreds of mega-farms with tens of thousands of pigs are befouling the air and water in the Yucatan. “Slaughter-land” — the First-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — shows how the industry endangers Mayan communities: bit.ly/4fUopT9

Over the last 20 years, the area burned by wildfires globally has dropped. But paradoxically, the number of people exposed to fires has risen dramatically.

For the first time in China, wind and solar aren't just supplementing coal, but replacing it. In an interview, analyst Lauri Myllyvirta says China must now choose between propping up coal or doubling down on clean energy.

Over the last three decades, whale strandings in Scotland have more than tripled. Are noisy humans to blame?

Along the edge of Greenland, the flow of meltwater is fueling blooms of algae, a new study finds.

Rustom Basumatary came of age at a time of violent conflict in northern India. “Chasing Birds” — Second-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — explores how he learned to find solace in nature: bit.ly/4lAP6gW

Once again, oil states have thwarted a global agreement on plastics. via @grist.org

Watch “Amazon Tipping Point,” the Third-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest: bit.ly/45rcAz2

In a warming Atlantic, hurricanes increasingly arrive in groups, a new study finds.

As fire season ramps up in the U.S. West, thousands of firefighting positions remain vacant. via @highcountrynews.org

Insects and spiders are declining in tropical forests around the world, even in areas untouched by logging, mining, or farming. In these places, new research posits, more potent El Niños are driving the losses.

Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds, according to the group managing the facility.

A recent study of Baltic cod offers the best evidence yet that overfishing is driving the rapid evolution of sea creatures.

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report. Ahead of international negotiations on a plastics treaty, authors warn that countries urgently need to cut production.

Scientists have discovered a bizarre array of creatures more than 30,000 feet under the sea. via @voxdotcom.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/45cgqMm

A reappraisal of satellite data from 2017 revealed that a thunderstorm over Texas produced a 515-mile lightning flash, the longest ever recorded.

President Trump promised a drilling boom. It has yet to materialize. via @insideclimatenews.org

A sprawling new study finds a link between air pollution and dementia.

Climate change is bringing heavier rainfall and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen has installed hundreds of flood control projects — from pumping stations to "sponge parks" — with hundreds more in the works.

Close to 900 million people live in slums across the Global South. One in three is at risk of “disastrous” flooding, according to a new study.

The 1874 Bush Fire Act outlawed controlled burns in British Columbia. Some Indigenous people were hanged for setting fires on their land. In a new interview, ecologist Lori Daniels explains how the law helped give rise to today's devastating wildfires.

Lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, a new study finds. That figure could rise in the decades ahead as warming fuels more lightning, particularly in the Far North.

China broke ground this week on a massive dam project in the longest and deepest canyon in the world. Experts fear the impact on wildlife in the river gorge, which is home to snow leopards, Bengal tigers, and the tallest tree in Asia.

A new scheme will pay Liberian villagers up front and in cash if they agree to protect their forests. "There is no wasting money on carbon accounting or international consultants," says an expert. "And critically, it is easy to understand — by everyone."

When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities. New research details the profound impact, in numbers.

A new study finds that logging can reshape watersheds in surprising ways, leading to dramatically more flooding in some, while having little impact on others.

An ice core taken from the European Alps was found to date back at least 12,000 years. The core, the oldest sample yet taken in the region, holds a record of history stretching back before the dawn of human civilization.

A drop in air pollution in East Asia drove a surge in warming, a new study finds.