Climate change may have contributed to a quarter of ER visits for heat-related illness from 2018-25, study finds
Heat-related illness is on the rise across the United States.
How Africa’s biggest cities are grappling with mounting waste and shrinking space
Johannesburg is struggling with a deepening waste crisis marked by unreliable collections, rapidly shrinking landfill space and a rise in illegal dumping. Residents and businesses in Kya Sands and Alexandra…
They are paid to bring rain. When it fails — or leads to floods — violence can follow
African rainmakers have long served as spiritual leaders in their communities, performing rituals to ask deities to bring rain.
‘Immaculate condition’: Rare mastodon fossil found in Northern California creek
Elephant-like creature roamed California more than 11,000 years ago
The push to remove lead pipes is on. Thousands of water systems still don’t know where theirs are
Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water.
California officials allow plans for the country’s biggest kelp farm to move forward
California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too. State coastal officials have voted to let a plan to build the United States’ largest kelp farm…
A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests
The prediction that this season’s El Nino will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community. They warn it could impact the flora and fauna of the Galápagos…
In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
Scientists and investors are restoring a 23-square-mile tract of peatland in North Carolina to help curb climate-warming emissions and restore native habitat.
Plastic leaves its traces in unexpected places — like your dentist’s office
No one inspects how dental offices dispose of ground-down plastic. Experts say that lack in oversight is quietly contributing to South Florida's coral reef crisis.
Parched summer in the Rockies sends hungry bears into urban areas and confrontations with people
Wildlife officials in the Rocky Mountain region are reporting far more trouble than usual between black bears and people this summer.