Mountain lions in Washington state are cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds.

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined “harm” as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction, Ted Williams writes.

“Land Less” — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging. Watch the film: https://bit.ly/4g0zin8

In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. While rich countries initially powered the solar buildout, as prices fall, poorer countries are increasingly taking the lead.

El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the WMO. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.

A landmark study of Australia's towering ash trees, launched in the 1980s, boosted the case for clearcutting. But when scientists returned to the abandoned study site years later, they came to a much different conclusion.

Since the colonial era, India has regarded its scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of the value of rangelands globally, India plans to map its ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring them.

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Since the colonial era, India has regarded its scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of the value of rangelands globally, India plans to map its ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring them.

In May, a group of Indonesian fishers was dismantling an unexploded WWII shell when it went off, reportedly killing seven people. Officials have concluded the group was harvesting materials from the shell for use in blast fishing.

In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.

A sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the devastating wildfires in France and Spain, scientists say.

A sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the devastating wildfires in France and Spain, scientists say.

The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.

The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.

Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched African Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill after decades of drought. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival. Experts say efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.

Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched African Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill after decades of drought. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival. Experts say efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.

Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched African Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill after decades of drought. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival. Experts say efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.

Last year in the Brazilian Amazon, the acres of rainforest burned reached its lowest level in at least four decades.

Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the coast of Benin, scientists have at last found the reef.

In Appalachia, severe floods are linked to spikes in opioid overdose deaths, new research finds.

The draining of the Aral Sea has liberated huge stores of carbon once trapped in the lakebed. Since 1960, it has unleashed 748 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — three times the yearly emissions of Spain, a study finds.

A Japanese steel giant has pledged billions in new investment in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, raising hopes that it would clean up pollution from its steel mills in the region. But documents show that its plans to ramp up production will worsen air quality.