A Crushing Year for Science in America
The Trump administration has sharply cut funding for scientific research and eliminated thousands of jobs. We spoke to scientists about the work that was lost.
Environment & Sustainability
Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.
Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight
Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule…
Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil
Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks The Prince of Wales will attend the crunch Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil next month, the Guardian has learned, but whether the…
One of world’s biggest wind farm developers to cut quarter of workforce
Ørsted plans to shrink company after Trump administration causes share price to plunge to all-time low One of the world’s biggest windfarm developers will cut its workforce by a quarter in the next two years after a series of setbacks…
In DRC’s Kivu region, the moringa tree offers valuable health benefits
Moringa, most often associated with its native region of India, is also a valuable plant found thousands of miles away in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Locally, it plays a crucial role in the production of…
BBC Inside Science
Renewables overtake coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity.
Regenerative fashion initiative in Indonesia wins 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award
In a world defined by extraction, Denica Riadini-Flesch is proving that creation can heal instead. The Indonesian economist-turned-entrepreneur has won UCLA’s 2025 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award for building a “farm-to-closet” supply chain—a system that regenerates land, restores heritage craft,…
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted Among the autopsy reports that made my heart skip a beat was Hannah Rose Moody. One…
Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?
SAN DIEGO, U.S. — The bluff at La Jolla Cove in San Diego is covered with pelicans and cormorants; below, some two dozen sea lions lounge on a rocky ledge or bark and frolic in the shallows, some leaping clear…
MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon
BOGOTÁ, Colombia and SÃO PAULO, Brazil — On Oct. 7 in Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the effort to phase out fossil fuels in the…