
This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record
“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says

This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record
“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them
Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to


What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means for weather forecasts
The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake

How heat makes it harder for students to learn
As temperatures rise, the evidence is clear that heat is eroding students’ ability to learn

Listening to a forest before it changes forever
Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that’s quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city

North Korea’s nuclear tests have turned this mountain into an earthquake hot spot
Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017

The hole in the ozone layer is healing, but extreme weather may be slowing progress down
Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace

How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

Trump repeals emissions regulations of fossil-fuel power plants
The reversal of a Biden-era cap on emissions from the plants could have devastating effects in efforts to stop climate change

The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record
The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began

El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people
The fires are burning peatlands, which can release more particulate matter into the air than other wildfires

The Pacific is being beset by hurricane after hurricane—why is the Atlantic so quiet?
The Pacific Ocean has seen an especially active hurricane season so far, while the Atlantic has had barely a whimper of a storm. Experts explain why