Environment News Service

If someone leaves the faucet running in your bathroom and the house floods, it’s easy to assign responsibility for the damage.

Study finds increased precipitation outpaces water loss from warmer temperatures.

Tiny autonomous drones could soon navigate through darkness, dust and smoke using artificial whiskers inspired by animals.

A new study found more than half of the city’s bike-share trips replace car trips, with each bike reducing annual CO₂ emissions by up 120 kilograms (kg) per year.

Coral reefs provide shelter and protection for nearly one quarter of ocean species, including crabs, moray eels, octopus and fish.

For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall, extending the melt season and contributing to widespread ice loss.

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.

Researchers have shown how dramatic sea level rise, over a 5,000 year period, profoundly changed the coasts of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia.

It started as a routine data-quality check. 

Eruptions are a regular occurrence at Anak Krakatau, a small volcano between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. 

Storing energy as heat is a proven pathway to address the challenge solar power faces when it’s dark or cloudy outside by enabling the capture, storage and on-demand release of thermal energy.

Forests and woodlands cover millions of hectares across Australia, from tropical rainforests and temperate eucalypt forests to the vast woodlands and shrublands of the arid interior.

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.

Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.

In early July 2026, Stanford postdoctoral researcher Alex Honeyman and graduate student Mark Leone attached a box the size of a briefcase to a firetruck in Colorado that was about to be dispatched to a wildfire 300 miles away.

In 2021, MIT set campus decarbonization goals as part of its Fast Forward climate action plan.

Geographers at FAU involved in international study – a lack of data hampers reliable prediction of rising global sea levels.

Wildfire-related PM2.5 linked to higher hospitalization risks for cardiovascular and respiratory disease and poorer survival among people with lung cancer.

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto’s surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet’s surface.