The Environment

Tsunami warnings and advisories were issued around the Pacific Ocean after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, the largest earthquake since the 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan

Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as originally planned

The Trump administration is releasing its proposal to undo the “endangerment finding,” the long-standing rationale and legal imperative for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act

Records are starting to fall to the continuing heat dome that is covering much of the eastern U.S.

Tens of millions of people are already under heat alerts, and the worst is yet to come

Think: subzero temperatures, bone-rattling storms and mysteries about the future of our planet under the ice.

When researchers discovered evidence of “dark oxygen” last year, the news spread around the world, but the biggest challenge to the science comes from its funders

High humidity and overnight low temperatures that are relatively hot will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week

Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in which the agencies are headed

Humid heat is blanketing the eastern U.S. this week, exacerbated by “corn sweat” in the Midwest

This episode of Science Quickly goes on an archival adventure in Scientific American’s July 1925 issue.

Household energy expenses will rise, as will greenhouse gas emissions, as a result of the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act