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The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but th...

Geologists surprisingly declined to formally declare a new epoch, but proponents...

The most powerful images of the natural world from 2024

A large number of damaging and deadly hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires,...

Supersized snowflakes: A scientific quest to make enorm...

New Scientist embarks on a quest to make record-breaking snowflakes. This is our...

Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice ...

In the new photographic collection Our Frozen Planet, Michael Hambrey and Jürg A...

Zooplankton research highlights key role in marine carb...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Eart...

Kenneth Libbrecht: How to grow a perfect snow crystal

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across. Ken Libbrecht ...

Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less ...

Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destruc...

Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most pri...

In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future...

La Niña is finally here but it won't stay for long

After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the easte...

California wildfires fuelled by months of unusual extre...

Fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due...

Oil extraction may have triggered over 100 earthquakes ...

Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and...

Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysteri...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep ...

Towering structures in Earth’s depths may be billions o...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower...

Gorgeous images capture coral breeding breakthrough

Cryopreserved coral sperm could be used for future breeding programmes to restor...

Charlotte O’Dwyer became the face of black summer’s ter...

On this day in 2020 the worst of the massive bushfires finally went out – but Au...

Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead | Ste...

There’s no point trying to make plans around the whims of Trump. The PM instead ...

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