Environment & Sustainability

Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee are joining scientists and engineers on a research expedition to a melting continent.

In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon’s University of Maroua and the American Museum of Natural History entered abandoned mining tunnels in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains as part of an environmental and social impact assessment for an iron ore project.…

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite.

The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, nagged at Kuno Kasak when he saw them in 2022. He knew that these canals, used to draw water out…

Meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east Record temperatures of almost 20C were reached in Iceland on Christmas Eve, the local meteorological office has confirmed. Seyðisfjörður, a small town in the east of…

Blue Origin’s all-female crew, which included scientist Amanda Nguyen, was launched into space in April.

We look at some of our best stories from 2025 that Times editors thought deserved more attention.

Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term decline The warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of some of Britain’s best-loved…

In the late 20th century, forest conservation in the eastern United States was rarely a matter of sweeping victories or clean resolutions. It was a practice shaped by hearings that dragged on, injunctions that arrived too late, and landscapes divided…

Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit “Someone has to be out there making the narrative for social security. Someone…