Mapped: Forest fire hot spots where treatment offers the biggest payoff for people and climate

The U.S. government is investing over US$7 billion in the coming years to try to manage…

Whales stop singing and rock lobsters lose their balance: How seismic surveys can harm marine life

Woodside Energy this week announced it would start seismic testing for its Scarborough gas project off…

Australian 10-year feral cat plan: A step closer to protecting endangered wildlife

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released a draft feral cat management plan. Click…

Saturday Citations: Quantum coherence; rising coal emissions; 'more uses of snail mucus are being discovered every day'

This first week of September, researchers reported on burned-out sharks, a method for maintaining quantum coherence…

Many people hate wasps, but research shows they're smarter than you might think and ecologically important

Everybody loves bees, but their cousins the wasps often provoke a far less friendly reaction. The…

Simple actions can prevent ships from hitting marine animals in their path

Simple actions can be taken to prevent the deaths of whales, sharks and other ocean giants…

Scientist shocks peers by 'tailoring' climate study

In a controversial bid to expose supposed bias in a top journal, a US climate expert…

Conspiracy theories falsely link wildfires to 'smart cities'

Disinformation about deadly wildfires in the United States and Canada has run rampant across social media,…

Hurricane Lee is charting a new course in weather and could signal more monster storms

Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it grew…

Study reveals human destruction of global floodplains

A University of Texas at Arlington hydrologist’s study in the Nature journal Scientific Data provides the…