Environment

The UK's electric vehicle (EV) sales target could be cut after the government launched a review following pressure from car makers.Currently, manufacturers must ensure a percentage of the cars they sell each year are zero emissions, with the target...

A record 332 million people visited U.S. national parks in 2024, followed by roughly 323 million in 2025.That’s a lot of love for national parks and lands. You might think that such big numbers of...

Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin.As...

The federal government is injecting millions of dollars into efforts to combat feral hogs – and it’s considering spending even more in the coming years. The problem has grown for decades, but our research has...

In a summer of wildfires severe enough to trigger Spain’s first-ever national emergency for a forest fire, a historic stone structure called the Nevera de Castro stands in a landscape burned bare in the Castellón...

When Chevron reported its highest quarterly profit in six years on July 31, 2026, it was just one detail in a larger picture: Analyst firm Wood Mackenzie estimates the global oil and gas industry is...

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they’re getting dangerously hot.Record-breaking heat waves strain power grids, send people to cooling shelters and...

Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people in the U.S. and beyond.Vibrio vulnificus, a type of flesh-eating bacteria that...

When fire evacuation orders are lifted and residents start returning to burned neighborhoods, many people assume “cleared to return” means “safe.” It rarely does.As an environmental engineer who has worked with communities recovering from some...

Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun. As that debris enters our planet's atmosphere, it burns up and creates spectacular...