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Maria Laura Tolmos Coquelet grew up in the Peruvian Amazon. As a child, she explored rivers by kayak and looked for animals along the banks. Nature was not a distant idea to her. It was home, and it shaped…
BOKI, Nigeria — The morning light fills Ulom with warmth and radiance. A dome of mountains, their green vegetation spread out like giant green walls, is visible at the edge of this serene village in Nigeria’s southeast. In the king’s…
Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When bumblebees taste something good, they reach out…
The smiles on the faces of Iman Ebrahimi and his colleagues in the photograph are revealing: After more than a month of war in Iran, a tenuous ceasefire in mid-April offered a brief window for the team to travel to…
The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll.
NASA/Keegan Barber NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. For 250 years, America has pushed the…
The UK’s next heatwave is here, but will it feel as hot and sticky as the last one?
The 20th anniversary of the NOAA Marine Debris Program Public participants in NOAA’s Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project sort debris items and record data at Nukoli’i Beach, Hawaii in June of 2024. (Image credit: Kauai Surfrider) July 6, 2026…
This artist’s concept shows a quasar, which is a galaxy with large quantities of material spiralling into its central supermassive black hole. Extreme gravitational and frictional forces heat the material to millions of degrees, generating more light than all the…
Brazil has increased wildfire spending and has hired a record number of federal firefighters in anticipation of extreme drought in the Amazon due to what could be one of the strongest El Niño events in more than a century. The…