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El Niño is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not. Read more on E360 →

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For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm trees and restore native wildlife. A new study finds that native fungi could be instrumental to that process. Read...

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As the war in Iran squeezes the global supply of oil and gas, countries are looking to source more solar power. China, the biggest producer of solar equipment globally, saw its exports double in March, reaching a new record high. Read more...

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The 13th annual Yale Environment 360 Film Contest is now accepting entries. Read more on E360 →

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A growing body of research is pointing to the critical, but unappreciated, role that older animals play in ensuring the survival of wildlife populations. Conservationists say the new findings should lead to policies that protect these...

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Schemes that certify wood or paper as sustainable are doing little to stem the loss of forests globally, a study finds. Read more on E360 →

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The evolutionary edge that fueled great white shark dominance for millions of years could soon become its greatest downfall. Read more on E360 →

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The energy shocks rippling from the war in Iran have spurred at least a dozen countries to embrace working from home. Leaders in Europe are now joining the push, hoping that more remote work will help curb consumption of oil.  Read...

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Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing pervasive lead contamination that continues to endanger their children, families in Kabwe,...

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Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the impacts on wildlife, fish, and the...

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The Israeli campaign in Southern Lebanon has devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials estimate that 22 percent of the country's farmland has been damaged in the course of the war. Read more on E360 →

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In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. However, rising power demand is complicating the transition away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many...

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As oceans warm and whale prey becomes increasingly scarce, gray whales have begun venturing into San Francisco Bay in search of food. But nearly one in five gray whales who enter the bay die there, many of them killed by passing boats, new...

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Scientists have long known that deadly diseases, from HIV to SARS to Ebola, can begin in animals and spill over to humans. But a new study is the first to quantify the risks from the global trade in wildlife, finding that nearly half of...

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Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than...

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A broad shift to electric vehicles would benefit drivers of gas-powered cars by lowering the price of fuel. That is the finding of a new study, which comes as the war in Iran rattles energy markets, driving up the cost of oil. Read more on...

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A planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city of San Francisco. Read more on E360 →

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The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas. Read more on E360 →

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In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach...

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In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach...

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For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to witness the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of hard-won environmental progress. But as the assaults on clean air and water, endangered species, and more mount,...

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Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Read more on E360 →

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Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations. Read more on E360 →

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New research finds that even a few scattered trees on farmland can give a big boost to forest wildlife. Read more on E360 →

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Fires, droughts, storms, and floods can have knock-on effects that are not well understood and rarely accounted for in planning. A new paper warns that, by ignoring the ripple effects of extreme weather, experts risk undercounting its true...

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Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to...

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Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds.  Read more on E360 →

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Over the last half century, the number of migratory fish in the world's rivers has dropped by 81 percent, according to a stark new U.N. report.  Read more on E360 →

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Gray wolves made an uneasy comeback in the Northern Rockies and are struggling to return to the Southwest. But legislation now working its way through Congress is being spurred by misinformation and myth, rather than science, and threatens...

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In the forests of central Mexico, the number of monarch butterflies grew for the second year in a row, suggesting the population has stabilized after years of decline.  Read more on E360 →

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Zambia is expanding development of its rich deposits of critical minerals, which are needed for the global shift to renewables. But contamination from past mining and a toxic spill at a mine site are raising fears that new wealth will come...

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Five years ago, Tanzanian authorities began pushing Indigenous Maasai off their ancestral lands in the famed Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Despite global outcry over the forced removals, this month two presidential commissions called for...

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Archbald, Pennsylvania, a borough of fewer than 8,000 people, may soon be home to five massive data centers that, when completed, will rank among the largest in the world. While residents are worried that data centers will strain the...

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Since President Trump launched the latest bombing campaign against Iran, the price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. has climbed 20 percent. The spike in fuel costs has fueled a surge of interest in electric cars. Read more on E360 →

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In Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands and forests, new research reveals. The findings show how, under the right conditions,...

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Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scientific community to recognize fungi on...

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Global news coverage of climate change declined for the fourth straight year in 2025, even as emissions hit new highs, according to a new analysis. Read more on E360 →

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As U.S. and Israeli forces continue to pummel Iran, oil installations and a desalination plant have come under fire. Attacks on key infrastructure threaten the supply of fresh water in a country already coping with a devastating drought....

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The Earth is warming at the fastest rate on record as emissions hit new highs and critical carbon sinks break down. Read more on E360 →

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Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.  Read more on E360 →

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When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to...

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Humans launched a record number of objects into space last year, from satellites to probes to crewed spacecraft. As launches increase, scientists see new risks in the growing number of satellites amassing over the planet.  Read more...

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Environmentalists are challenging the EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding,” which empowered it to regulate greenhouse gases. Whether or not the action holds up in court, now is the time to develop climate strategies that can be...

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In China, the world's leading carbon emitter, a massive buildout of solar power is beginning to push fossil fuels into decline. Last year China saw its emissions drop, even as demand for energy rose.  Read more on E360 →

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As humpback whale populations recover, researchers are gaining a richer understanding of these wondrous creatures. A new study reveals it may take years for humpbacks to learn how to successfully serenade a mate. Read more on E360 →

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While artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era of more accurate weather forecasting, A.I. models may still struggle to predict freak storms. This week a historic blizzard blanketed the Northeast in snow, dumping more than 2 feet on...

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The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are not just becoming more common; new research shows that these factors are increasingly arising in multiple...

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Hearings began Thursday in the first major climate suit of a multinational oil company in France. Judges will decide if oil giant TotalEnergies must curb its production of fossil fuels to keep its emissions in check. Among those following...

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For years, baboons have roamed Cape Town suburbs, entering houses and yards in search of food. Now officials have a conservation plan aimed at reducing conflicts between the big primates and people — but like most things baboon-related...

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The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, government figures show. Officials credit the decline to stepped-up enforcement against illegal deforestation. Read more on E360 →