The Environment

A “fever” of cownose rays revealed by striking drone footage could be a sign of warming oceans

Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997

President Donald Trump and other Republican officials had criticized this chapter as biased against fossil fuel companies

This seismic event is of a similar magnitude to the pair of earthquakes that hit Venezuela in June

July also saw its second-highest air temperatures on record this year

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th-century wars, and the continent’s wildfires are now big enough and hot enough and last long enough to reach them

This sweet film uncovers bitter disagreements among urban ecology and conservation experts that go way beyond just one owl

New work shows how different storm types are shifted by cities’ microclimates

Mountain lions (also known as cougars or pumas) make roads safer by scaring deer and elk that can cause collisions with cars into more remote areas

Charles Darwin predicted in 1875 that some members of the Saxifraga genus could be carnivorous—now scientists have finally proven him right

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

Dry conditions and climate change are putting forests across the country at risk for disaster