This annual contest celebrates photographers who will do almost anything—even slather themselves in petroleum jelly—to capture nature’s best shots.

The Japanese city of Fukuoka is the second in the world to harness the power of osmosis to generate electricity for surrounding areas.

We’re starting to stash our planet-warming carbon emissions beneath the seafloor, but we might have to take these strange mounds of underground sand into account.

There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles.

Firefighters have been racing to save the centuries-old “Doerner Fir” since they received reports of on Saturday, August 16.

A new study offers a comprehensive look at how wildfire affected the mortality rate on Maui in August 2023.

After analyzing a dataset of more than 60 million recorded birdsongs, researchers found that birds are singing an average of 50 minutes longer per day.

The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?

The first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season is poised to bring life-threatening impacts to much of the East Coast even though it’s unlikely to make landfall.

Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault ruptured more than 124 miles (200 km) farther than seismologists had predicted. California should take notice.

A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren’t convinced.

Within just 24 hours, Erin went from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5. Here’s how that happened.

Tapping into discarded nuclear waste could help generate a self-sufficient source of a key ingredient for nuclear fusion, a new plan proposes.

“Consensus kills ambition”: Procedural hurdles once again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.

A deadly combination of high temperatures and oppressive humidity has prompted the National Weather Service to issue advisories in 15 states.

A new report of the global lithium market argues we should be trying harder to recover supplies of unused, pure lithium lying inside discarded lithium batteries.

A state-of-the-art ocean-observing satellite recorded the massive wave rippling out from the epicenter of this major quake.

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved nuclear fusion ignition with the help of an AI program that essentially told them they were on the right track.

The National Hurricane Center expects this storm to gradually strengthen over the next day or so, but also warned of its potential to rapidly intensify within the next 24 to 48 hours.

Scientists know little about the elusive river otters living along the East Coast, but a new study inspired by one bizarre, smelly poop offers some much-needed insight.