Observations from the Little Bunker

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02336-8Genebanks hold the key to crop resilience and adaptation, yet their potential remains underutilized. Now, a study demonstrates how merging genomic and...

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02333-xThe authors consider the future climate resilience and genomic adaptive capacity of the globally important crop sorghum using 1,937 global accessions. They...

Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflictA global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according...

Bridget Burns is executive director of WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization), a global advocacy organization advancing gender equality and climate justice. You’ve probably heard this stat before – it’s...

Critics worry new executive order allows political appointees to determine how science is used in policy decisions

Scientists warn that chronic underfunding and diverting support away from fundamental research may undermine efforts to boost the economy

Surface sources are under pressure from industry demand and climate-change volatility.By Jon HurdleA natural gas company has surrendered its permits to pump water from a western Pennsylvania creek in a...

Any time a federal agency wants to develop a project in Wyoming — an oil and gas lease, a pipeline, a dam, a transmission line, a solar array — it...

Study traces mysterious strain of white-nose disease to visits between American and European cavers

A new study of the insects’ genomes traces their success back to early civilization

For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a...

For more than a century, Covington, Virginia has had one dominating feature: its paper mill. Smokestacks tower over the community of 5,500, many of whom work there. But according to...

BoM prediction follows much wetter than average autumn for northern and eastern Australia, and much drier one for southGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s winter...

Advanced training lets a four-legged robot learn to move around the court with ease

In Lesotho and Eswatini, treatment and prevention cutbacks are hitting pregnant women, children, and teens especially hard

Leinweber Foundation donation will help fund postdocs and graduate students at multiple institutions

Astronomers are puzzled by the silence over an instrument that could briefly reign as world’s biggest

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. SignificanceThe US overweight/obesity epidemic and the resulting chronic disease burden are an unfolding, diet-driven existential disaster. This...

There are more than 130 active wildfires across the country, half of which are considered out of controlMore than 17,000 people in Canada’s western Manitoba province were being evacuated on...

A huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of a village evacuated earlier this...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. SignificanceLYTAC technology represents a pioneering approach for selectively depleting disease-associated extracellular and membrane proteins, thereby enhancing the...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. SignificanceArbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis is formed by soil-inhabiting Glomeromycotina fungi and most land plants and can significantly...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 21, May 2025. SignificanceClinical studies have suggested a strong link between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). T2D...

A 10-year legal battle involving melting glaciers, overflowing lakes and greenhouse gas emissions from a German utility is over, but the decision doesn’t rule out future claims.By Bob BerwynAfter nearly...