Features

Watch

Explore

A monarch butterfly drinks nectar from a flower in the Pollinator Habitat bed near the Chicago Park District storehouse on Aug. 7, 2024.
Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
America’s butterflies are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
xscreenshot-2025-03-06-at-20-47-45.jpg
Zeke Hausfather/ERA5
A striking new visualization looks like a flower in bloom but tells an alarming story about what’s happening to the planet
Green hillsides surrounding Lake Kaweah, near Lemon Cove in Tulare County, California on February 11, 2025. Lake Kaweah is a reservoir formed by the Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River in order to control floodwaters from the melting Sierra Nevada mountains snowpack. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
Inside Trump and DOGE’s chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California’s water
Sun shines through Douglas fir trees in the Willamette National Forest in Oregon, on October 27, 2023.
Amanda Loman/AP/File
Trump’s Canadian tariffs include lumber. He is pushing to cut down American trees instead.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by imageBROKER/Shutterstock (1367299a) Inguri Dam between Georgia and Abkhazia, Middle East VARIOUS
ImageBroker/Shutterstock
Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy
Protesters march along the pipeline route during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in St. Anthony, North Dakota, U.S. November 11, 2016.
Stephanie Keith/Reuters
Trial begins in fossil fuel pipeline company’s $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over protests
Egyptians gather to inspect the site where a building collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria on July 15, 2012. Egypt's health ministry said that rescue services had retrieved several bodies from under the rubble of an 11-storey building that collapsed a day earlier in Alexandria. Three neighbouring homes were also destroyed. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
AFP/Getty Images
Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
17 February 2025, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: Cars stand and drive on the B10 in gridlocked rush-hour traffic.
Marijan Murat/dpa/picture alliance/Getty Images
The far right just made huge gains in a country once seen as a climate champion. It’s a pattern happening across the world
The Suncor Energy Inc. Steepbank mine is seen in this aerial photograph taken above the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. While the upfront spending on a mine tends to be costlier than developing more common oil-sands wells, their decades-long lifespans can make them lucrative in the future for companies willing to wait. Photographer: Ben Nelms/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Ben Nelms/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Why Trump’s fix for gas prices won’t work
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 27: Eastbound 101 freeway traffic drives into the sunrise near White Oak Avenue in the San Fernando Valley as it's expected to be another hot day with record breaking temps on March, 27, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The second day of a heat wave brought on by a high pressure system over the region. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
FILE -- Ships crossing the Gatún locks in the Panama Canal, July 10, 2024. To imagine the kind of future a hotter, dryer climate may bring, and the geopolitical challenges it will create, look no further than two parts of the world that President-elect Donald Trump says he wants America to control: Greenland and the Panama Canal. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
Federico Rios/The New York Times/Redux
Trump wants to reclaim the Panama Canal. He’d be taking on a waterway facing crisis
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 14: A general view of the U.S. Department of Energy on February 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration announced the lay offs of 1,200 to 2,000 workers, including probationary employees, at the Department of Energy. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Trump officials struggled to reinstate nuclear weapons staff after firing hundreds
Flags outside the Department of Energy. Trump officials fired more than 300 probationary employees at the NNSA Thursday, then rescinded those terminations on Friday.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say
Cell lines are prepared in the laboratory of Dr. John Tisdale, a Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on February 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland. Two Americans whose lives were turned around by newly-approved treatments for sickle cell disease (SCD) tell AFP they want others to benefit too. But the eye-watering cost -- up to $3.1 million per course of treatment -- could limit access for other patients. Tesha Samuels was born in 1982, just before the invention of prenatal screening for SCD, an inherited red blood cell disorder. SCD affects around 100,000 people in the US and some 20 million worldwide. Most people with the condition are Black. Scientists say this is because the sickle cell trait evolved to protect people exposed to malaria, so the risk of SCD is higher. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/File
Critical health and science research is on the chopping block as Trump actions trigger shutdowns and confusion
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is shown in an aerial view in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Jae C. Hong/AP
Two new studies suggest Paris climate goal is dead. One scientist is going even further
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 09: The US Department of Energy headquarters is seen behind the sign marking the location of the building on February 9, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)
J. David Ake/Getty Images/File
Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel