Environment & Sustainability

The law would make fuel companies help pay for damages caused by climate change. The administration argues it’s unconstitutional.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir waves at the camera during a seven-hour, two-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 18, 2026. NASA/Jack Hathaway Expedition 74 started the week training for the arrival of the next U.S. cargo mission and…

HONORIA, Peru — Jacqueline Flores sits cross-legged on a wooden platform inside a dim Asháninka maloca, the Indigenous longhouse where her dress, painted with geometric patterns, seems to merge with the resin-sweet smell of plants macerating for ceremony. Outside, the…

NASA/Josh Valcarcel From left to right, NASA astronauts Andre Douglas, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronauts Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen pose for a photo before the Artemis II crew…

Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo recorded the birth of a second set of mountain gorilla twins this year. According to park authorities, the twins were born into the Baraka family and are believed to be a…

A new era of trash talk? Florida universities collaborate to address marine debris A litter boom installed in Anclote Creek by University of Florida’s Operation TRAP prevents trash from flowing downstream in. (Image credit: NOAA Marine Debris Program) Download Image…

Watch live: Expedition to advance deep-sea coral restoration Deep-sea scleractinian coral Lophelia pertusa with a bubblegum octocoral (in red, Paragorgia sp.) at 300 meters depth on Piggy Bank in Southern California’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. (Image credit: NOAA /…

Staying one step ahead of tsunamis (Image credit: Richard Madsen) Download Image March 23, 2026 Tsunamis can be devastating, unpredictable events that have caused over 250,000 fatalities since the beginning of the 21st century—as well as hundreds of billions of…

A stranded humpback whale in Germany’s Baltic Sea looks weaker, and experts fear it won’t be able to find its way back to the Atlantic despite several attempts at its rescue this week. A 500-meter (yards) restricted area was enforced around the whale…

Last week, governments, conservationists and civil society from around the world gathered in Brazil for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS-15). In a rare moment of unity, they formally established something scientists have…