Environment

Coral skeletons from a Marshall Islands atoll have yielded a monthly-resolution temperature record spanning three windows of the past 1,500 years, and the comparison suggests that Central Pacific El…

Two ocean eddies south of the Canary Islands held up to three times more microplastic in their upper 200 meters than the surrounding region, according to shipboard sampling published Sept. 3 in…

The UK Health Security Agency said Sept. 3 that invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae have been found at residential properties in east London, and that it is the first time the species has…

The World Meteorological Organization said Sept. 3 that El Niño is firmly established in the tropical Pacific and forecast that it will strengthen into a very strong event before peaking toward the…

Oil on water does something a radar satellite can see. A slick flattens the small wind-driven ripples that bounce radar back to the spacecraft, so the sea beneath it returns almost nothing and the…

Tropical forests emerged from severe droughts less able to withstand further disturbance across 68.8% of their area, a study published Sept. 3 in Nature Geoscience reports. Yang Chu and colleagues…

Strong earthquakes removed 38.86 ± 6.23 teragrams of carbon from the world's land ecosystems between 2006 and 2018, according to a study published Sept. 3 in Communications Earth & Environment. A…

Cut the pollution at its source and the water should clean itself up. That is the logic behind decades of farm-runoff policy: reduce the fertiliser, and the nitrate that fouls groundwater should…

We tend to picture plastic pollution as something that happens to the ocean: bottles on beaches, a gyre of debris in the Pacific. But some of it is going the other way, into the ground under our…

China's carbon dioxide emissions fell by about 1% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, according to a quarterly analysis by Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy…

Climate-driven change in the deep seabed of the equatorial Pacific, where companies plan to mine polymetallic nodules, will rarely be distinguishable from natural variability by 2035, and had begun…

In July and August of 2013, as the snow line climbed uphill on Urumqi Glacier No. 1, a field team climbed up behind it. Five times over those two months they scraped the top centimeter of the surface…