As the 2026 El Niño intensifies across the Amazon, new research highlights the urgent need to better protect the region’s remaining forests from disturbances.

The same amount of rain falling on the same landscape at different times can send very different amounts of water into its rivers, according to a new study in Nature Water.

Human development may be changing more than where pollinators live — it may also be changing when they are active.

Scientists in search of coral reef barriers which had been detected but not investigated in the 1960s, and were thought to be dead, discovered an apparently thriving ecosystem of deep-water corals.

Once coyotes get a taste for city living, the call of the wild fades to a whisper. 

The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.

Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. 

The Antarctic ozone layer is recovering, a major environmental success following the Montreal Protocol. 

Many of the Antarctic’s smallest inhabitants have evolved over millions of years so their body fluids are similar in chemical composition to that of sea water.

As one moves north, Maine’s kelp forests are being overtaken by dense mats of carpet-like turf algae.