Latest Climate & Environment Breakthroughs

Tapirs and anteaters ranging closer to development and waste sites carried more microplastics in their blood

Anole lizards of closed Caribbean forests raised their heat tolerance by 2 °C on average in a decade

Pesticide residues rank as the second strongest driver of soil biodiversity across European soils

A dedicated satellite resolves individual leaking sites across the planet's biggest fossil-fuel basins.

Adding two feedbacks that models usually ignore cuts the room left under 1.5 C by a quarter.

A single AI beats operational forecasts for weather, air quality, ocean waves, and cyclones at a fraction of the compute.

Linking tropical cloud change to ocean warming patterns halves the field's biggest uncertainty.

Satellites reveal a reversal of a decades-long freshening trend that tracks the loss of Antarctic sea ice.

Mid-depth warming in the equatorial Atlantic points to a circulation slowdown that began decades ago.

Reversing warming later could take hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon removal, and may not be reversible at all.

An attribution study pins back-to-back record heat on El Nino stacked atop steady greenhouse warming.

In-soil CO2 monitors directly measure carbon removal from basalt spread on a Virginia soybean field.