Grand Canyon National Park is navigating an unprecedented infrastructure crisis deep within its inner gorges. As millions of annual visitors arrive at the South Rim, an…
Marie stumbles slightly as she records video on her smartphone, catching her footing on loose stone before redirecting the lens toward a lush canopy. Around her,…
Sometime around July 21, 2026, boaters on Williston Reservoir in British Columbia came across something that had no business being there: a landmass roughly the size…
A study published in Health Physics by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory finds that widely used emergency response models have significantly underestimated how much hazardous dust…
Oceans are growing far more algae than before — and a sweeping new study reveals the full scale of a transformation reshaping marine ecosystems Stretches of…
Pulling billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere is one of the hardest things humanity has ever attempted. The technologies built for it —…
High on the Washington side of the Columbia River, near the John Day hydroelectric dam, members of the Yakama Nation gathered on windswept ground their ancestors…
Friends of the Verde River and Salt River Project have opened applications for the third year of the River Friendly Living Grants Program, backed by $52,000…
The UK North Sea is declining—that much isn’t in dispute. But a new white paper from energy consultancy Gneiss Energy argues that the pace of that…
Before dawn on January 23, 1973, the island of Heimaey shook awake. A mile-long fissure had split open just half a mile from town, shooting fountains…
On August 4, 2026, advanced satellite radar orbiting Earth recorded a quiet shift high above the frozen coastline of northwest Greenland. A massive section of shelf…
The strongest El Niño pattern in recorded history is bearing down on the American West. Yet the Colorado River—the primary water supply for 40 million people…
Washoe County just got federal approval to build a stormwater management facility on about 13 acres of public land north of the Heppner Subdivision in Lemmon…
Beneath the glaciers and snowfields of High Mountain Asia, an invisible crisis is deepening. The region — known as the “Asian Water Tower” — feeds rivers…
Petrobras has contracted Halliburton to drill four onshore wells at the Barra do Furado Station in Quissamã, Rio de Janeiro—a milestone that marks Latin America’s first…
Federal climate officials have confirmed that July 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded across the contiguous United States. NOAA issued the designation, marking a new…
Somewhere across rural China, uniformed personnel aim military rocket launchers into the atmosphere. Their target is not an invading military force but passing cloud cover. The…
Every hurricane season, forecasters run into the same problem: warm water hiding beneath the ocean’s surface, invisible to satellites and beyond the reach of most monitoring…
In the summer of 2022, the McKinney Fire tore through the hills above the Klamath River in Northern California — one of the West’s most storied…
At the shifting boundary where open ocean meets frozen Arctic sea ice near Greenland, atmospheric sensors recently recorded a startling anomaly. Aboard the Royal Research Ship…
Standing at the rim of Lake Powell, there’s nothing to signal the danger. No gauge on the canyon wall, no alarm, no visible sign that one…
Decades of drought and overuse pushed the Colorado River toward a breaking point, and Washington is now forcing seven states to confront who gets less water.…
With August marking Florida’s historically hottest month—and recent summers running 10% to 15% above long-term averages—Duke Energy Florida is stepping up with guidance for the more…
Uniper has named SLB Capturi as the preferred carbon capture technology licensor for its proposed Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power project in Deeside, United Kingdom. The…
When oil spills across the ocean surface, the slick seems to stretch beyond any natural remedy. Yet long before cleanup crews arrive, something microscopic is already…
A Cornell University study published July 13 in Earth’s Future warns that Colorado’s six West Slope river basins—which supply roughly 70% of Lake Powell’s water—could see…
Marine conservation has long forced coastal towns into a tough spot. Give up your fishing grounds today. Then, wait decades for the ocean to heal. For…
Hundreds of meters below the Pacific’s surface, in a dimly lit stretch of ocean most people have never heard of, the water can turn as murky…
Semona Holmes has fruit trees in her yard, potted flowers on her porch, and a fish pond out back. She also has floodwater — rising to…
For years, two wild dirt loops in Utah have drawn adventurous riders from all across the country. The Cedar Mesa Loop and the Grand Staircase Loop…
The UK government has approved development funding for the Viking CCS carbon capture and storage project in the Humber region, one of the country’s most heavily…
During California’s 2020 wildfire season, more than 10,000 distribution poles were destroyed and over 3 million customers lost power. Some of those outages weren’t caused by…
A NOAA-funded coalition has pulled more than 18,168 pounds of marine debris from the shores of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Anacapa Islands—part of California’s Channel…
In the Miera River basin in northern Spain, a small team of researchers is wading into clear mountain streams. They are sending brief pulses of electricity…
Superstorm Sandy. The devastating 2025 Texas floods. Massive weather events like these force us to face an uncomfortable sci-fi question. What if we could see a…
Severe weekend storms swept through eastern and central Pennsylvania, knocking out power for more than 115,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers as of July 5, 2026. Heavy…
Every glass of milk carries an invisible climate cost. Cows burp methane in massive quantities as they digest their feed. Scientists have long searched for ways to…
A 137-mile high-voltage transmission line cutting through the grasslands of Roosevelt and Lea counties sounds like bad news for wildlife. In this corner of eastern New…
China is actively addressing droughts by seeding clouds and altering the atmosphere. Climate change has rendered global weather patterns highly volatile. This unpredictability and extreme conditions,…
Forests absorb roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide humans produce each year — a natural buffer that climate projections depend on. But a study published…
A study submitted to Nature Communications suggests that pollution and wildfire aerosols do not cool the atmosphere right away — they may actually warm it first.…
Researchers are advocating for immediate action as the Great Salt Lake continues to diminish. Climate change is traditionally the main culprit when it comes to the…
The rise in global warming has accelerated climate change, driving dangerous consequences for commercial flights. Over the past few years, Earth’s temperature has increased above safe…
When haunting images of corroded metal barrels on the deep seafloor off Los Angeles surfaced in 2020, they captured the public’s attention — and raised an…
A new preprint study submitted to Nature Communications suggests that pollution and wildfire aerosols don’t cool the atmosphere right away — they may actually warm it…
Princeton, Iowa, spent nearly $800,000 building a backup well—then had to shut it down. Testing in September 2024 found nitrate levels of 12.1 mg/L in the…
A major international sports event meant to bring nations together has created a bigger divide. FIFA’s 2026 World Cup has kicked off and will occur across…
Under the open sky, a small reactor does something quietly unusual: it coaxes carbon dioxide straight from the air into a specialized liquid solution. Then, it…
Mineral dust drifting off the Sahara and other arid regions is one of the atmosphere’s most abundant — and least understood — climate forces. Depending on…
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order on June 11, 2026, allowing Duke Energy to run its power plants at maximum output across the…
