The Environment

The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record

An area of high pressure is bringing record-high heat to some parts of the U.S., with an added boost from climate change

In the latest effort to undermine climate action, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins global efforts to address rising temperatures

Capsizing icebergs are violently clashing with the crumbling end of the Doomsday Glacier

Trump has cited Venezuela’s oil resources as motivation for capturing the nation’s leader—here’s the geology behind the news

Water plays a crucial role in how tiny pieces of plastic enter our environment—and us

Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is why

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a new study

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025

From the first sighting of a colossal squid in the wild to a seriously goofy octopus, 2025 delivered some astounding photos from the ocean’s depths

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal