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Environment

Here’s What Nuclear Testing Does to the Earth—and Us

With trials of atomic weapons set to resume, we recall the environmental and health damage wrought by such testing

October 30, 2025

Hurricane Melissa Could Threaten Some Species with Extinction

As the super strong storm lashes the Caribbean, vulnerable species and habitats lie in its path

October 29, 2025

How This Haunting Hurricane Illusion Forms

Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers

October 28, 2025

How “Plant Math” Can Help Predict the Climate’s Future

Researchers are building equations for vegetation processes that might improve climate models

October 27, 2025

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products

October 1, 2025

Modeling the Deep

An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres

September 25, 2025

The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good

This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.

September 19, 2025

Gaia’s Got a Fever

An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal strikes

September 17, 2025

Rogue Wave Mystery Solved

Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it

September 10, 2025

This Forest Survived a Megafire

Saving it involved destroying it twice

September 8, 2025

You Can Help NASA Track Hurricane Damage

Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts

September 8, 2025

Cities Obey the Laws of Living Things

All towns, big and small, are animals

September 5, 2025