Environment

Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth ...

Last year’s marine heatwaves saw an unprecedented decline in the growth of phyto...

Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss ...

A proposal to define the Anthropocene as a geological epoch was rejected this Ma...

Hot Atlantic sets the stage for extreme hurricane season

This year could bring up to 25 named tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean due t...

Snow and rising sea levels may have triggered Japan's e...

In an ongoing swarm of earthquakes that began hitting Japan in 2020, the shiftin...

Is North America set for another bad wildfire smoke sea...

Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada and Mexico is already worsening air quali...

Watch Philippines typhoon disaster film winner of Earth...

A documentary film about three young survivors of super-typhoon Odette, a tropic...

Photos of a rusting Alaskan river win New Scientist Edi...

Taylor Roades's images of a river in north-west Alaska that has turned orange be...

What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the exp...

Exhausted by today's political and environmental instability, Annalee Newitz inv...

Record amount of water from 2022 Tonga eruption is stil...

Millions of tonnes of water vapour have been lingering in the atmosphere since t...

Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source o...

Sea-floor nodules raise oxygen levels in the deep ocean, suggesting they may hav...

Mangrove forests celebrated in stunning photographs

See some of the top entries to this year's Mangrove Photography Awards, showing ...

Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, ...

Amazing images of an open-air library, underground lab and design museum show th...

Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb tr...

The dynamics of how plants and animals change Earth is central to this last book...

New Scientist recommends Twisters – action sequel with ...

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

Record-breaking drill core reaches 1.2 kilometres into ...

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever be...

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

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

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