ENVIRONMENT

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of mammals—including new research into the eating habits of lobe-finned fish which inhabited an ancient reef in northern...
An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds. This discovery by a team of researchers led by...

Study reveals 8 million years of ‘Green Arabia’

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over...

Ancient lakes and rivers unearthed in Arabia’s vast desert

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result of...

South Korea wildfires ‘largest on record’: disaster chief

Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze,...

The amount of fresh water available for lithium mining is vastly overestimated, hydrologists warn

New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia—source of more than half of the world's lithium resources—shows that...

‘Like the apocalypse’: S. Korea wildfires tear through mountains

Truck driver Lee Seung-joo was driving through South Korea's Andong mountains when the wildfires hit, engulfing the area in flames and turning it into...

Back in the pink: Senegal salt lake gets its color back

The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge—and businessfolk and...

Giving rivers room to move: How rethinking flood management can benefit people and nature

When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what if the best solution—for...

‘It was beautiful’: Mount Kenya’s glaciers melting away

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting...

Massive, long-lived trees discovered in the Tanzanian rainforest are a new species

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National Museum of Kenya has discovered...

After the fire: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger deadly debris flows. A geologist explains how

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next. The potential for...

People pulled together to help LA fire survivors—60 years of research shows these unsung heroes are crucial

As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers...

Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s,...

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