When one of the nation’s biggest investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric, wanted to replace Merrian Borgeson’s aging gas service line in Berkeley, California, she...
As efforts to protect people from extreme heat stall, organizers are embracing an approach that targets major brands’ reputations’It’s the kind of heat that makes...
Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Niño rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate...
As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.By Martha PskowskiSAN ANTONIO, Texas—In Texas, suburbs...
International collaboration and government support made the technology possible. Those partnerships have been tested under the Trump Administration, but so far are surviving.By Nathaniel EisenThis...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02775-xClimate change will further increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Subjective experience and attribution...
El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing widespread burning and scientists warning that the...
Exclusive: Research confirms official advice about high-risk properties and warns worsening conditions will make more homes unsafeSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s...
In January 1966, a South African ship caught fire at sea. In port in Bristol, England, after firefighters pried open the smoking container, the conflagration...
Scientists have discovered that some forest soils are becoming surprisingly better at removing methane from the atmosphere as temperatures rise and rainfall declines. A study...
Genome analysis shows how decades of lab cultivation turned C. botulinum, the canned-food killer, into a potent tool for medicine and the beauty industry
Youth protests for better school conditions have prompted a national political crisis. Lack of adaptation to a hotter world is part of the story.By Mathilde...
Atrazine, banned by 63 other countries, is linked to lymphomas, breast cancer, reduced fertility and multiple birth defects—but we don’t actually need it to grow...
The piles of toxic waste from the Pensacola site, once home to wood-treating and chemical companies, led it to be dubbed ‘Mount Dioxin.’By Craig PittmanPlenty...
Abstract Ammonia (NH3) measurements are challenging to make, and air‐sea flux estimates are sparse, with coastal observations complicated by overlapping marine and terrestrial signals. Here...
Abstract Hydrothermal systems at ultraslow‐spreading ridges are poorly understood, especially where thick sediments overlay detachment faults. The International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 403 obtained the...
Abstract Soil respiration (Rs) is a major component of the global carbon cycle, yet its responses to environmental drivers remain poorly constrained. Using 8,111 observations...
Arizona alleges that a plan for Lower Colorado River Basin states to shoulder water cuts would devastate its economy.By Wyatt MyskowThe Arizona Department of Water...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02765-zMechanisms behind climate decision-making remain unclear. This study shows that political affiliation and subjective attribution shape attention...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02775-xClimate change will further increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Subjective experience and attribution...