The Environment

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is raising concerns about possible tsunami impacts, although risk appears to be waning

Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record

After nearly 40 years of global efforts, the ozone hole over Antarctica is continuing to heal

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

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

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