Tropical primary rainforest loss dropped 36% in 2025 — the steepest decline in years. El Niño is building, and the fires it brings could burn it all back.
PFOS levels in northern gannet eggs dropped 74% over 55 years. The steepest declines came after governments started regulating. The chemicals are leaving living tissue — slowly, but measurably.
Since Hormuz closed, ships rounding South Africa have more than doubled. The whales feeding in those shipping lanes had no time to adapt.
The climate models that best match real-world ocean data are the ones showing the steepest decline in the Atlantic's heat-carrying current system. A roughly 50 percent slowdown by 2100 is no longer the worst case — it is the best estimate.
The world's largest forest research network could lose 57 of its 77 sites. The studies that would end have been running for decades — and nobody else is positioned to continue them.
Climate models rarely agree this completely. Right now, every major seasonal forecast points toward an El Niño that could surpass anything in the historical record.
More than 500 people have reportedly died from cancers in villages near abandoned drilling sites in northern Kenya. The company that left the waste behind has declined to comment.
Fifty-seven countries gathered in Colombia for the first summit dedicated to planning a managed phase-out of fossil fuels. The world's biggest producers and consumers weren't invited.
For four consecutive hours during the 2024 Hajj, heat and humidity in Mecca exceeded what the human body can survive — even for healthy young adults. Roughly 1,300 pilgrims died.
A Nature study finds that continued deforestation could trigger Amazon collapse at 1.5°C of warming — a threshold the world could breach before 2030. Without deforestation, the same dieback would require nearly 4°C.
A cafe that once sat at the water's edge now stands meters from the nearest shore. The world's largest inland sea has dropped two meters since the 1990s — and projections get far worse from there.
Thirty gigawatts of planned clean energy capacity now sits in limbo. The Pentagon's explanation for blocking 165 onshore wind projects: national security. The specifics: nonexistent.
Satellite data puts Australian coalmine methane at 1.7 million tonnes. The government's official figure: 0.82 million. The gap is not new — but it keeps widening.
New satellite data confirms parts of Mexico's capital are dropping nearly 2 centimeters every month. The Angel of Independence has needed 14 extra steps added to its base since 1910 just to reach ground level.
A 12-meter humpback whale swam free in the North Sea on Saturday after eight weeks stranded in the Baltic. Whether he reaches the Atlantic is far from certain.
Fifty-nine nations signed on to draft national roadmaps for phasing out coal, oil, and gas. The plans are voluntary, carry no deadlines — and the world's biggest emitters didn't show up.
Toxic runoff from rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is draining into the Mekong, threatening 70 million livelihoods — all to feed global demand for EVs, wind turbines, and weapons systems.
The world lost a Denmark-sized expanse of tropical rainforest in 2025. That was the good news — and a potential El Niño could undo even that.
30°C inside the Arctic Circle. 50°C in Turkey. Europe is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the continent that industrialized the world is paying the steepest price.
The Interior Department is paying offshore wind developers $885 million to walk away from clean energy and invest in oil and gas — at a moment when fossil fuel dependence is driving up energy prices.
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Rae Carlsen