From drought to major floods and extreme heat, El Nino will have a huge impact on the world’s weather. In the Atlantic, it could mean a season without hurricanes.
As war disrupts one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, satellite images reveal that oil is spreading toward protected coral reefs and mangrove forests.
Heat waves, wildfires and floods have cascading economic impacts, causing incomes to decline and the price of basic goods to rise. The trend will escalate as temperatures continue to increase.
Traffickers are making big bucks smuggling millions of critically endangered eels across continents, in suitcases on planes or by exploiting legal loopholes to end up on dinnerplates. Where are the smuggling hotspots?
The Zagreb demonstrators demanded that the government come up with a plan to clear illegal toxic waste in 20 days. Prime Minister Plenkovic has promised to tackle the issue.
As data centers multiply to meet AI demand, they’re straining power grids, draining water supplies and reshaping the land and air around them.
Rising temperatures are increasing the risk of floods and avalanches in mountain regions. The disaster in Nepal and Tibet shows the urgent need for solutions, and the tools that could help save lives.
A quiet multimillion‑dollar black market is exploding across the Indian Ocean, driven by one unlikely animal: the sea cucumber.
New research finds the Bronze Age collapse of civilization emerged from water scarcity. Are droughts today pushing us toward a collapse of our own?
While some of the world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically, others show that recovery is possible.