The Environment

Botanist Mason Heberling challenges how we think about invasive species and our role in their spread.

In this week’s news roundup, two NASA astronauts finally return to Earth after nine unexpected months in space, gray seals hold their breath for more than an hour, and penguin poop panics krill.

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem

The Defense secretary aims to purge climate work from the Pentagon. But critics say his carve-out for weather resiliency misses the point

About 20 people die every day in the U.S. after being hit by a car. To make walking safer, we need a big cultural shift in how we view pedestrian safety

As the world gets closer to the mark 1.5 degrees Celsius in Paris climate agreement, scientists are racing to establish a single way to monitor current warming

A plan by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to fire scientists could disrupt environmental rules focused on clean air and water long after President Donald Trump leaves office

A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers

RFK, Jr. fought mercury pollution for years, but he is now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water

California is experiencing wider swings between wet and dry spells

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission. Will this enlightened approach prevail?

A planned project in Texas could be the world’s first direct air capture development to rely primarily on electricity produced on site by wind power