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The growing season for ragweed, the main cause of allergies in the U.S., has expanded by an average of 11 days since the 1970s, an analysis shows. Read more on E360 →

As the world rapidly nears peak fossil fuels, energy emissions are headed for decline, according to multiple independent analyses. Read more on E360 →

While Britain has long been a leader in cutting emissions, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is now implementing a stunning reversal of climate-friendly policies, with new plans to “max out” oil production. Business leaders have joined environmentalists in…

The last year has seen a dramatic drop in forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon, but a concurrent rise in wildfires threatens to wipe out these gains, scientists warn. Read more on E360 →

Conservationists have released 19 young wildcats into the Scottish Highlands, hoping to restore a cherished animal on the edge of extinction. Read more on E360 →

The ocean is an enormous engine, turning heat energy into motion, says physicist Helen Czerski. But human activity is threatening that machine — depriving the seas of oxygen, increasing stratification, and potentially changing the currents that influence…

The Kenya Nut Company, near Nairobi, will be the first farm in the world to produce fertilizer, on site, that's free of fossil fuels. Read more on E360 →

Ecologist Carl Safina took in an orphaned owl and planned to care for it until it was ready live on its own in the wild. Yet as the Covid pandemic settled in, he found his deepening connection with the owl, nicknamed Alfie, provided solace through a…

As temperatures rise, warmer weather will spur some trees to release a chemical known to worsen air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

After more than a decade of intensive planning and research, an extensive campaign to eradicate invasive species on a Galapagos island got underway this week. Read more on E360 →

Afro-Siberian red knots migrate from the Arctic to winter in Africa, where they recover from the arduous journey. But warming in Siberia is causing physiological changes in the birds that hinder their ability to feed, and scientists fear the subspecies is…

Abandoned farmland has been increasing, with a billion acres — an area half the size of Australia — lost globally. Ecologists are increasingly pointing to the potential of these lands and of degraded forests as neglected resources for rewilding and for…

Satellite images have confirmed that the world's oceans have become slightly greener. Scientists suspect climate change is the reason. Read more on E360 →

After sampling the skies over two Japanese mountains, scientists have, for the first time, discovered microplastics in clouds. Read more on E360 →

Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move…

Land-based wind turbines kill as many as 880,000 bats a year, wiping out so many threatened bats that at least one species could soon become endangered without preventative action, according to a recent study. And since bats eliminate pests from farms and help…

Only 5 percent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal Northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any…

White rhinos saw their numbers grow for the first time since 2012 last year, boosted by efforts to restore the creatures to the African landscape. Read more on E360 →

A new study reveals how, by cultivating fertile soil for farming, ancient Amazonians locked away thousands of tons of carbon that have stayed in the ground for centuries. Read more on E360 →

A massive volunteer effort to digitize World War II-era U.S. naval logbooks is helping fill an important gap in the climate record. Read more on E360 →