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The ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever recorded, forced more people from their homes than at any point since the second world war and caused what sc...

Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room in London planning an air pollution campaign. “My phone started buzzing,” he said. “I ...

A remote natural landmark in the Northern Territory has been officially crowned an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, making it the Territory’s first and only the third in Australia.Karlu Karlu con...

The endangered Banasura laughingthrush ( Montecincla jerdoni ) has a restricted range (~ 50–60 km²) within the high-elevation forests (Sky Islands) of India's Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. It...

What qualifies as a win in environmental campaigning?Is it when a huge forest area that is home to a stack of threatened species, including koalas, and has been the focus of years and years of campa...

Habitat loss and fragmentation threaten biodiversity by reducing species richness and disrupting ecological interactions. But it is poorly understood how reduced habitat area and increased isolation i...

Officials in swaths of California say they haven’t observed any air quality impacts due to smoke from the Hawk Fire, which has burned thousands of acres near the Nevada-California border.Forward p...

The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies ...

For many in the UK and Europe, the weather’s turn to cooler and showery this week will come as a welcome relief. But for farmers, it’ll be too little, too late after an unprecedented summer of hea...

Addendum to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10196-1 Published online 4 March 2026 This Addendum provides the configuration details for the geoid models used in the methodology underlying t...

Sustainable groundwater management depends on understanding the dynamic behaviour of seawater intrusion (SWI), a slow and persistent phenomenon that might go on for decades in coastal aquifers. A cruc...

The Australian government has been accused of leaving coastal waters largely unprotected by establishing the bulk of highly protected marine parks in remote areas.More than 270 leading marine scient...

New research shows Angola’s peatlands are at least four times bigger than initially thought. The ecosystem is key to regulating water flow in southern Africa’s rivers and stores carbon.In today�...

Land subsidence is a global threat. In Europe, it impacts tens of millions of people by increasing flood risk and damage to the built environment. Land subsidence is the result of a combination of nat...

“Greenness” is a key indicator of the functional state of vegetation. However, the physiological processes behind seasonal patterns in greenness are diverse and incompletely understood, hindering ...

Wildfires in New England rarely make national news. The spotlight is more often on the catastrophic fires of Western states, but the Northeast’s fire season has been quietly heating up.In 2025, se...

We are bouncing over a rough, steep gravel road on the hunt for macadamia trees in the wild. Here in the tangled rainforest at Mary’s Creek in Queensland is the macadamia’s main ancestral home.I...

Franklin Kury, who passed away last week, helped make Pennsylvania one of the first governments in the world to guarantee a healthy environment as a basic right. Share This ArticleA monumental fi...

A booming demand for concrete has resulted in sand and gravel being extracted from riverbeds faster than nature can replenish it. A study published in Reviews of Geophysics shows that the demand for s...

India set out to expand its forested areas a decade ago. Last week, however, we learned that the forest cover programme had barely taken root when the government’s auditors released their findings o...