The Environment

A more circular economy in textiles is a good look for the planet

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few people see

Kissing bugs are creeping across the U.S.—and they’re bringing Chagas disease with them.

Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as pumping up seawater or launching aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet’s surface

A new study finds that one quarter of heat waves between 2000 and 2023 would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming—and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers

Hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin is historically at its peak on September 10—but not this year

Hurricane forecast maps are more complex than they appear. Understanding them could change how you prepare for the next storm.

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of losing homes, businesses—and lives—as giant “gullies” expand into cities across Africa

The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health and issued removal notices to four more

Hurricane forecasts have made huge leaps since Katrina hit 20 years ago, but that progress is threatened by Trump administration cuts to research

Two decades after Katrina, we revisit the storm and discuss the evolution of hurricane preparedness since then.