Science and Environment

The world’s oceans reached their highest recorded temperature in August, according to the European climate service Copernicus. Ocean temperatures reached ...

Scientists say the right clothing can help people stay cooler during very hot weather, but there is no single best ...

Police from five Amazon countries arrested 839 people during a major operation against environmental crime, officials said. Operation Green Shield ...

Residents of Croatia’s Rab Island are using traditional ways to stay cool as Northern Europe faces another heatwave. While many ...

More than 120 people on a luxury cruise ship became sick during their recent trip. Health officials reported that 102 ...

A new study warns that climate change is likely to increase the number of larger and more damaging hailstorms around ...

Experts are urging people to recycle plastic bags correctly as plastic waste continues to grow in the United States. Soft ...

Rising fuel prices linked to the Iran war are pushing more people in Asia to buy rooftop solar systems. In ...

Millions of people celebrate Earth Day every April 22. This event started because people wanted to protect our planet. In ...

Health experts say allergy season is causing problems for millions of people in the United States as pollen levels rise. ...

Researchers in New Zealand say penguins may prefer white plastic, increasing the risk from ocean pollution. A team led by ...

Fishing in Greenland is becoming more difficult because of climate change. Fisherman Helgi Áargil spends many days on his boat ...

Bayer, the German owner of Roundup, has announced a $7.25 billion (about ¥1.1 trillion) settlement with lawyers representing cancer patients. ...

Rosy-faced lovebirds are popular pets around the world. But in Phoenix, Arizona, these small parrots live freely in the wild. ...

Norwegian skier Nikolai Schirmer gave the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a petition signed by more than 21,000 people who want ...

A new study by German scientists shows that changes in ocean water may harm sharks’ teeth. Sharks are powerful predators ...

Farmers on the Great Hungarian Plain are feeling great distress as their land becomes drier each year. The Homokhátság region ...

King Charles III said early diagnosis and medical screening helped doctors find his cancer early, when it was easier to ...

Scientists have found a gigantic number of dinosaur footprints in Toro Toro, a village and national park in the Bolivian ...

US health officials say several infants have been sickened in an outbreak of botulism, an illness caused by a type ...

Half of the 2 million people in Zanzibar, Tanzania, do not have a house connected to the electricity grid. Hamna ...

For the past ten years, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have used their wealth to support health ...

In southern England, the Millennium Seed Bank is one of the world’s most biodiverse places. It is an underground facility ...

Three scientists have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a new material that can trap gases and ...

Scientists have found new organic materials in icy geysers shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The discovery increases the chance that ...

Australian scientists tested new kinds of wetsuits that could protect people from shark bites. According to the International Shark Attack ...

The cockatoo, a white bird with yellow feathers on its head, is an endangered animal. Only about 2,000 are still ...

Mount Fuji has not erupted since 1707. But Japanese officials released videos made using AI showing a simulation of what ...

Keith Lambert and his family cope with the very hot summer in Chicago by moving in and out of their ...

In Pakistan’s Sindh province, musicians are using songs to teach people about climate change. The area was badly affected by ...

Online celebrities around the world have started a $40 million fundraiser called #TeamWater. The goal is to help bring clean ...

Eight children became sick during a church concert near Harvard University on July 22. The children showed signs similar to ...

Vietnam will ban gas-powered motorcycles and mopeds in central Hanoi starting July 2026. This directive from Prime Minister Pham Minh ...

In July, a fast-moving wildfire affected the Greek island of Crete, a popular tourist spot. Local officials ordered an evacuation ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves. The planet is getting hotter because people burn fuels like coal, oil, and ...

Scientists reported that climate change caused by humans made Iceland and Greenland much hotter than normal in May. The strong ...

The Midwestern United States has begun experiencing storms again. And a team of scientists called ICECHIP is driving into these ...

At least 10 people in the United States got sick from a listeria infection outbreak linked to packed sandwiches and ...

In 2025, whooping cough cases went up to 8,485 in the United States. That’s twice as many as the same ...

Sapnaben Chunara, a 30-year-old mother, spends most of her day outside because her home in India is too hot. Her ...

A new study says that the world’s largest corporations have caused $28 trillion (about ¥4.3 quadrillion) in climate damage. This ...

In Kinshasa, Congo, a special puppet show using paper animals tells an important story. These puppet animals, including monkeys, giraffes, ...

Lego opened a $1 billion (more than ¥143 billion) factory in Vietnam in April. The company says this factory will ...

In a small village in Vietnam, the traditional craft of making nuoc mam, or fish sauce, is at risk because ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to help nurses do their jobs faster and reduce stress ...

Measles is not seen much in the United States today. However, some Americans are worried about it because cases are ...

Kenya’s wildlife spaces are shrinking, even though the country earns a lot from wildlife tourism. Experts say animals are losing ...

People in Kashmir near the Himalayas watched in agony as a famous ancient spring ran dry because of extreme dry ...

A fire burned down the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California in January. The fire sent toxic smoke ...

By 2060, around 1 million Americans each year are expected to develop dementia, which is about double the number today, ...

Barcelona is going green with its new public transportation project MetroCharge. The project uses special technology to collect energy from ...

The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced plans to close all coal and fossil fuel power plants. The government also plans to ...

An environmental group said that it plans to sue Cooke Aquaculture, one of the largest fish farming companies in the ...

A new tool powered by artificial intelligence might help screen for high blood pressure and diabetes without using traditional tests. ...

Palau’s Helen Reef is one of Earth’s most biologically diverse reefs. It is home to many kinds of plants and ...

In Italy, an outbreak of disease is threatening the pig meat industry. On Giovanni Airoli’s farm, a pig was found ...

For many Floridians, preparing and listening to warnings could save their lives when a violent storm comes. According to emergency ...

In Ohio, a long drought and changing weather due to climate change are affecting the pawpaw, North America’s largest native ...

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his team safely returned to Earth after a five-day space mission. The trip took ...

Microplastics, or tiny pieces of man-made plastic, are found everywhere. They can be in the ocean, air, food, and water. ...

A new study says that wildfire smoke may be more harmful to the brain than other types of air pollution. ...

Heat waves in the U.S., Mexico, India, and the Middle East are getting worse. High temperatures and humidity are dangerous ...

Mexican wildlife, including birds and monkeys, is suffering because of a heat wave and lack of rain. Mexico’s Environment Department ...

Tick season is starting across the United States. And experts are warning people that there could be a lot of ...

A strong solar storm that hit Earth on May 10 and 11 produced stunning colorful auroras or northern lights across ...

The world is producing more e-waste than ever. There were 62 million metric tons of e-waste in 2022, and it’s ...

Indonesia experienced a 27% rise in forest loss in 2023 compared to the previous year. The rise is mainly due ...

Japan will be giving the United States 250 new sakura trees. These trees will replace those that will be ripped ...

A senior Communist Party leader recently announced that China will work on technological reforms and green technologies. And the reforms ...

New AI tools are helping thousands of doctors communicate with their patients. Some tools are used to answer messages, and ...

Morocco’s famous public baths, or hammams, have been fixtures in the culture. Hammams are places where people gather to unwind. ...

There is an alarming spread of dengue in Peru because of water shortages and storage. In Piura, a poor city ...

Singapore is a Southeast Asian country with a dense population. It has a fast-growing economy. However, despite its success, Singapore ...

A new United Nations report says that nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline. When the season ...

The test result of a study by the University of Nebraska discovered that electric vehicles (EVs) can easily crash through ...

In December, Sunrise Farms’ chickens had bird flu. Following the government rules, the poultry farm had to slaughter its whole ...

Two top US science agencies reported that global average temperatures in 2023 shattered existing heat records. The U.S. National Oceanic ...

Kenya experienced a power blackout in December. It paralyzed large parts of the country. The transport minister requested the National ...

Wegovy, a popular weight-loss drug, reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in an international study. Experts say ...

In New Delhi, the government closed schools and did not allow polluting vehicles and construction work. Only essential activities, like ...

A group of scuba divers went diving in New York City. They’ve seen pretty sea creatures like crabs, sea robins, ...

A Southern Queensland clinic is providing some free dental services in Australia. The goal of the program is to improve ...

This summer, the Southwestern United States and other parts of the country experienced many days of harsh heat. And this ...

The smoke from Canadian wildfires has reached the United States. And it resulted in a spike in people with asthma ...

Amazon, an American e-commerce company, opened a virtual clinic last year. And now, they are adding video telemedicine consultations in ...

The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans to send a spacecraft to the solar system’s main asteroid belt. It’s the latest ...

Temperatures are rising in Japan and summer is coming fast. In Osaka, temperatures went up to 25 degrees Celsius on ...

Mountain rangers and wildlife biologists always warn people to not feed bears and other animals at parks. But for birds, ...

The ozone layer is healing and would fully mend in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. The ...

When it comes to Christmas trees, some people say that nothing beats a real one. Every year they cut down ...

A US company has announced plans to open two luxury hotels in space within the next few years. Orbital Assembly ...

Do you take your shoes off at the door, or do you leave them on? This debate has been ongoing ...

According to ocean researchers, creepy dolls have been washing up on a beach in southeastern Texas recently. The scientists walk ...

A flamingo that escaped from a Kansas zoo in 2005 was recently found over 1,000 kilometers away. Nicknamed “Pink Floyd,” ...

Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks were returned to the Cambridge University Library earlier this year, more than two decades after ...

A recent BBC study on tap water found that the levels of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” exceeded European safety levels ...

A recent study confirmed that there are now more than 8,000 wild parakeets living in and around Paris. The tropical ...

Astronomer Michael Brown and his colleague, Konstantin Batygin, have announced that they’ve narrowed down the location of a possible ninth ...

Scientists have created a giant laser to try to control lightning. They’ve installed the 5,000-kilogram, 9-meter-long laser on Mount Säntis, ...

People have started to call a new Indonesian tourism project “Jurassic Park” after a shocking photo of it went viral ...

NASA scientists have announced that the chance of an asteroid hitting Earth is higher than their original estimate. Bennu is ...

Trillions  of cicadas have appeared in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and other areas of the US. Cicada season is ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently suggested that rich countries should eat only synthetic or plant-based meat. Synthetic meat is grown ...

The city of Philadelphia – commonly known as Philly – has started a new program to help stop migrating birds ...

A California man paid $10,000 for ad space in the Wall Street Journal to complain about his internet company’s service. ...

A species of worm called jumping snake worms is invading US forests. The worms are originally from Asia, but scientists ...

A team of Australian scientists has discovered a coral reef that is taller than the Empire State Building. The newly ...

According to a new study, cats may be more intelligent than most people think. In the study, a Japanese cat ...

San Diego Zoo Global has successfully cloned a Przewalski’s [shuh-VAHL-skeez] horse, an endangered type of wild horse. The animal was ...

According to a new study, air pollution is the biggest threat to human health. Scientists used the Air Quality Life ...

Iceland Foods, a British supermarket chain, adopted all of the Humboldt penguins at Chester Zoo. The supermarket is known for ...

A new study discovered that less than one-third of the world’s population is able to get food from local sources. ...

In 2014, NASA astronauts started growing plants on the International Space Station (ISS). The astronauts used a special space garden ...

Researchers from Northwestern University analyzed the brain activity of about 1,000 male and female athletes and non-athletes. While the study ...

A team of scientists created special particles that may help people see better in the dark. The particles help the ...

According to a recent study, the population of green sea turtles in the Pacific is increasing. From 2002 to 2015, ...

A new study found that planting trees is the most effective way to stop climate change. Researchers used images from ...

The U.K. has a new plan to pay homes for their green energy. The plan is called the Smart Export ...

Romeo was called the loneliest frog in the world. He lived alone in an aquarium for 10 years. Romeo is ...