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Forests could regrow naturally on more than 800,000 square miles of land around the tropics, without need for planting trees by hand, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation's deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal city of…

In an e360 interview, microbial ecologist Jake M. Robinson, of Australia’s Flinders University, takes a critical look at tree planting campaigns and discusses scientists’ varied approaches to both “planting” and “growing” forests to restore their…

China is likely to see its emissions fall this year, despite rising power demand, as it continues to build out renewable power at unparalleled speed, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →

Concrete is the most ubiquitous manmade building material on the planet, but making it generates massive amounts of CO2 pollution. Companies are experimenting with ways to green the process, from slashing the use of limestone to capturing the carbon generated…

Pollution seeping from gas stoves kills 40,000 people each year across the U.K. and EU, according to a new report, the latest contribution to a growing body of evidence that stoves pose a threat to human health. Read more on E360 →

The loss of forest in New Zealand has led some stoneflies to change color, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

Predicting large and dangerous storms has always been challenging. It’s gotten tougher, says meteorologist James Marshall Shepherd, as a growing fringe has started to harass, verbally abuse, and threaten scientists and forecasters who link ferocious weather…

Recent sightings of the "Mekong ghost" fish in Cambodia offer hope for a creature once presumed extinct. Read more on E360 →

An unusual early September cyclone drenched large parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, filling dry lakes and rivers. Satellite imagery from NASA shows the impact of the deluge. Read more on E360 →

Amid the war’s destruction, Ukrainian scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. When the conflict ends, they say, the nation should not rebuild its massive Soviet-era infrastructure and instead continue the rewilding by letting nature keep…

Young adults with higher levels of certain “forever chemicals" in their blood reported poorer sleep, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

One a single day in August, Nigerian officials recovered more than 9 tons of illicit pangolin scales. The stockpile would be worth an estimated $1.7 million in East Asia, where pangolin scales are sold for their use in traditional medicine. Read more on E360 →

Scientists have successfully bred corals that are more tolerant of heat, showing for the first time that corals can become better adapted to warming within the space of a single generation. Read more on E360 →

As ocean temperatures remain stubbornly high, forecasters see a diminished chance that the Pacific Ocean will enter its cooler La Niña phase this fall, as was predicted. Read more on E360 →

Plankton form the base of the world’s food chain, but warmer and more acidic oceans are affecting their numbers and variety. Some species, on which fish rely, are in decline; others, which soak up carbon, are on the rise, while others are shifting their…

While warming is pushing some European vegetation north, toward cooler weather, a new study finds that for for many forest plants, there is a much greater pull westward. Researchers find these plants are chasing down nitrogen, a key nutrient supplied by…

Since early 2023, the world has seen a steep rise in temperatures that scientists are struggling to explain. E360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, about possible causes of the warming and why experts…

Renewable power is on pace to produce close to half of the electricity used globally by 2030, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, which finds that in nearly every country large wind and solar plants are the cheapest forms of new…

Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood, the logs have been returned to the traffickers and sit in limbo in a Singapore port. The legal saga highlights the ongoing corruption and gaping holes in efforts to save…