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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact12 Comments -
The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels5 Comments -
War has brought Iran's water crisis to a breaking point: 'Things will collapse unless there is meaningful structural change'6 Comments
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'Everything is connected': Readers share their concerns about extreme heat's health impactsPoll Are you worried about extreme heat? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about Earth's rising temperatures.
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'This is such a clear story': Climate change is supercharging El Niño to unprecedented strengths, study findsAn analysis of coral taken from the Galápagos Islands reveals that El Niño has become nearly 40% stronger since the preindustrial era.
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'Wildfire smoke is the fastest-growing environmental threat in the US': How a warming world will poison the air we breatheScience Spotlight Wildfires are projected to increase dramatically due to climate change. That could trigger a massive increase in heart attacks, premature births and early deaths, research reveals.
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Devastating Nepal floods were triggered by glacier collapse, experts say — and there's a risk of more landslides to comeCatastrophic floods in Nepal may have resulted from a "hazard cascade" that may have been amplified by climate change, one scientist has warned.
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Rare sunlight trick transforms Pacific island into a giant silver 'magnifying glass'Earth from space A 2023 astronaut photo captured a "sunglint" illuminating the sea surrounding one of the Solomon Islands. The rare phenomenon also transformed the Pacific's largest lake into a shining silver "lens."
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Ocean 'under unprecedented strain' as El Niño helps supercharge warming to record levelsThe Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that the daily global sea surface temperature has reached its highest level since records began.
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The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study findsThe rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will cross a tipping point, new research suggests.
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Giant underwater plume blasts into swirling cloud 'street' in the East China SeaEarth from space A recent satellite photo captured a series of clouds sculpted by von Kármán vortices from a volcano on South Korea's Jeju Island. A giant multicolor plume, ejected by China's Yangtze River, is also visible in the image.
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'They don't deserve this beauty and this breathtaking fragility'Interview Polar tourism researchers Zdenka Sokolickova and Liz Cooper talk about why a number of Antarctic tour guides have given up what they still consider to be their dream job.
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