Current Affairs

El Niño is developing in a warmer atmosphere than the world has seen before, and the part scientists are watching most closely isn’t just the storm pattern

A team at Colorado Boulder just built a material that holds its shape like concrete and pours like sand — and the trick has nothing to do with chemistry

Trump just dropped his fight against wind energy after losing in court — but the natural gas buildout quietly happening underneath the win will outlast the next four administrations

UK electric vehicle drivers are quietly saving £3bn a year at the pump — and the government is preparing to weaken the rules that made those savings possible

A former CDC epidemiologist calls the global wildlife trade "pandemic roulette" — and a Florida sloth attraction just exposed exactly which agencies are supposed to be watching, and aren't

While most coral coverage reads like an obituary, a Woods Hole scientist is quietly mapping the reefs that keep thriving when everything around them bleaches white — and the Marshall Islands could turn her Super Reefs idea into a real-world conservation test

Fructose isn't acting like a calorie inside the body — and a sweeping new Nature Metabolism review argues that's why cutting soda alone won't reverse the metabolic disease curve

LanzaTech just signed a Copenhagen biofoundry deal that sounds like another carbon-capture press release — but the microbes at the centre of it are quietly rewriting where your jet fuel, packaging and protein come from

The wellness industry is selling NAD+ infusions for up to $1,000 a session as an anti-aging fix — and the actual human evidence is nowhere near what the price tag implies

The EPA just moved to let gas plants and AI data centers break ground before getting air permits

New Orleans just logged its heaviest Mardi Gras trash haul on record, and the easy explanation about bigger crowds collapses the moment you look at what's actually in the pile

Roughly 4.6 million Americans live within a half-mile of an abandoned oil well leaking methane into their air and water — and a tiny Montana nonprofit is doing the cleanup the industry walked away from

The Colorado River is about to break a 103-year-old legal compact and Corpus Christi could run dry next year — and the water isn't going where the headlines say it is

A Hong Kong lab made a stainless steel that shouldn't exist according to corrosion textbooks — and it could quietly cut green hydrogen's biggest hidden cost by 40 times

The IRS just handed Cheniere $370 million for burning gas its ships were going to burn anyway

Tonga's eruption revealed a natural methane scrubber hiding in the stratosphere

Supreme Court weighs whether EPA labels shield Bayer from Roundup cancer lawsuits

US Army seeks partners for plant-based combat rations as vegan MRE rollout moves toward 2027

Scientists found a new way to fight gum disease without killing the good bacteria in your mouth

Global shipping carbon tax survives U.S. pressure campaign, could face November vote