Environment

The new estimate for how much heat we can tolerate makes rising global temperatures even more alarming.

The world’s largest and smelliest flower teeters on extinction.

Hands-on fieldwork, cutting-edge science, and baboons who steal your lunch.

That means humans could go hungry, too.

Too much sodium is bad, but so is too little—no wonder the body has two sensing mechanisms.

Here’s how psychology can help fix that. (It’s easier than you'd guess.)

New evidence suggests electric stoves are better for people and the planet.

Some of them contain materials that are harmful to human health.

Why we should respect worst-case scenarios.

A young scientist’s quest to transform a dying way of life.

Our writer joins researchers in Mozambique to uncover how fire shapes Africa’s grand wilderness.

Scientists are studying them to help protect endangered host species.