New Scientist - Environment

Dramatic images show the dark side of cobalt mining boom

Pascal Maitre's photos from the Democratic Republic of Congo detail the problems...

Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nob...

After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the equatorial Atlanti...

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

James Lovelock's hypothesis that our planet is a living entity is well known. Fe...

Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in q...

Quartz crystals produce electricity when they are deformed by mechanical stress,...

Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric p...

This claustrophobia-inducing image is taken from photographer Martin Broen's new...

Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth ...

Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in...

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years...

These maps will change how you see the world

Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collect...

Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of...

A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting d...

How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ...

El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

El Niño and La Niña cycles driven by ocean temperatures in the Pacific can influ...

Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds...

A story passed down in folklore led scientists to evidence of an 8-metre tsunami...

Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did tw...

In the western US, the average maximum growth rate of fires has more than double...

Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton...

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic ex...

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us f...

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destro...

Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in adv...

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed...

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