Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits.

Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Krissy Barrett said during a news conference that the two alleged Bondi attackers “acted alone” and were "not part of a broader terrorist cell." Barrett went on to say that there had been speculation around the alleged shooters’ visit to the Philippines,…

A monument overlooking the Panama Canal appears to be the latest casualty in President Trump’s simmering contest with China for influence over the key waterway.

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal, and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the Guardian and Inside Climate News. The project was supported by the Joyce Foundation. You can read the launch stor…

Aviation experts and pilot groups say IndiGo’s unprecedented scheduling crisis this month was due in part to an industry failure to address pilot fatigue.

In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, the scientists saw the impact of massive objects around the star. The Fomalhaut syst…

In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of compelling images have been released today that were recently taken by Hubble. This stretches from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death, to a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. Af…

Neutrinos may be nearly invisible, but they play a starring role in the Universe. Long-standing anomalies had hinted at a mysterious fourth “sterile” neutrino, potentially rewriting the laws of physics. Using exquisitely precise measurements of tritium decay, the KATRIN experiment found no evidence …

Josephine Wentzel spent years tracking down the suspect in her daughter’s death and is now helping others grieving cold cases.

A comprehensive report on food waste published in March by the United Nations Environment Programme shares some sobering statistics: In 2022, people around the world wasted the equivalent of more than 1 billion meals each day. But the key take-home message is a far more encouraging one. In addition …

Nvidia believes running AI models will be highly profitable, but its Groq deal reflects uncertainty over which chips and architectures will dominate.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he ordered “numerous” strikes on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria he accused of killing Christians.“The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, prim…

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling confirmed these decisions weren’t just instinct. The findings could influence how we think about lear…

Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets reusable, verifiable, and citable. By uniting curation, compliance, peer review, and interactive visu…

The best phone cameras of 2025 will likely launch in the back half of the calendar, but there are a few worth celebrating now.

Engineers at JPL are certifying the Perseverance rover to drive up to 100 kilometers.

British heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua was in a speeding Lexus and survived a crash Monday morning in Nigeria that killed two other people, authorities said

The most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, authoritarianism and war.

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

A 30-year-old man has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to operating an illegal waste site on rural land in Northumberland, following a long-running investigation by the Environment Agency. A Northumberland man who dumped waste illegally on his land has been sentenced at court a…

A group of 10 countries, including France, warned on Tuesday that the situation in Gaza was "catastrophic" due to the "renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation" in the Palestinian enclave. They called on Israel to allow greater access for NGOs and to lift restrictions on importing essenti…

Stardew Valley is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Fans of the farm life simulator, specifically those who already own it for the Nintendo Switch 2, can download a free upgrade that introduces new features and multiplayer modes.
If you have Stardew Valley on the Switch 2, you can download the Up…

A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Magnetars are ultra-dense stellar remnants with extremely strong magnetic fields. Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 was not born in a neighbouring supernova as previously thought. The birthplace of this object is now unknown, and SG…

LIMA, PERU, Oct 27 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today opened its 63rd Plenary Session in Lima, Peru, bringing together some 300 delegates from IPCC member governments and observer organizations to advance its work in the seventh assessment cycle. Over the four-day session, …

See the moon phase expected for December 30, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving matter may be far more difficult than scientists once thought.

A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected.The suppo…

Remote sensing in agriculture requires complex systems that are able to communicate with various external devices like GPS and cameras, and use machine learning and AI inference to provide insights to the grower regarding their orchard,...

Brian Cole was arrested and charged earlier this month for allegedly planting two pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic Party headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021.

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation rate with a novel technique, achieving a level of accuracy 1000 times greater than previous estimates. By analysing more than a decade of Hubble observations of Uran…

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, November 2025.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – I would like to thank you for the invitation to address the opening of the Earth In…

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Senegal vs. DR Congo in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

As of Dec. 30, these are the best deals to help you cut down on screen time in 2026.

Samsung isn't waiting until economic conditions are ideal to start selling its TriFold foldable phone.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1654 on December 30 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Elon Musk made many 2025 promises that he couldn't keep.

WASHINGTON — SpaceX plans to resume Falcon 9 launches on Jan. 8 after completing the investigation into the pad explosion that destroyed another Falcon 9 four months ago. Article by Jeff Foust In a statement posted on the SpaceX website Jan. 2, the company said the explosion was caused by the failur…

Microscopic particles from space have been collecting in the gutters of Paris, Oslo and Berlin, revealing incredible insights to the mysteries of our solar system. Article by Ian O’Neill Through dogged determination, Jon Larsen has become driven to find space particles, which date back to when our s…

President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy return to the negotiating room on Sunday with a familiar, fraught task: trying to chart a path toward ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Iran is facing its largest demonstrations in years as people hit the streets of Tehran and other cities to protest the country's dismal economic situation

Russia has accused Ukraine of targeting one Putin's presidential palaces with drones in a bid to disrupt peace talks. Analysts say it may have been engineered.

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk’s relationship with party leaders in China is in the spotlight as the trade war ramps up. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer reports on what this means for his popularity in the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is en route to the U.S. via Canada ahead of a weekend of high-stakes diplomacy and a renewed push for peace amid deadly Russian bombing on Ukraine’s capital

The bilateral meeting with the Israeli prime minister at Mar-a-Lago comes as Trump seeks to advance the Gaza ceasefire deal that he brokered.

British heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua survived a car crash in Nigeria that killed two other people, authorities said. Joshua escaped with minor injuries, according to police.

Editor’s note: Paul Biasco first wrote about the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park for Ensia in early 2020. Here, the author revisits the park as it’s set to open to provide an update on the progress.    It’s unusually dry in this former lake bed in the Valley of Mexico. It hasn’t rained in weeks, and ty…

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mongabay and is republished here with permission. Click here for highlights from the story. Prescribed fires are a positive land management method, but when the flames occasionally escape control, the resulting damage to land and private property also hurt…

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between Ensia and Egab exploring environmental efforts by communities facing potentially more urgent concerns such as war and poverty. Egab is a media startup that helps young local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa get published …

Editor’s note: This story is the introductory piece in a six-part collaboration — “Inundated: Flooding and vulnerable communities in the Great Lakes region” — that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Grist, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the G…

Recent news articles about a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research heralded the potential for “limitless” energy. Whenever I read that word limitless I wince. The promise of limitlessness is misleading and sometimes deadly. Limits exist everywhere in nature. They enable the functioning of systems …

Editor’s note: This op-ed originally appeared at Project Drawdown and is printed here with permission. When I tell someone I lead a climate change nonprofit, one of the most common questions I get is: What can I do to reduce my carbon footprint?  It’s a fair and important question. After all, Projec…

For the past decade and a half, a team led by Cambridge University conservation biologist William Sutherland has engaged scientists and practitioners from around the world in a unique annual activity: conducting a horizon scan to identify the top emerging technological, political, economic and relat…

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. You can read a version of the story in Spanish here. As the world races to decarbonize everything from the electricity grid to industry, it faces particular problems with transportation — which alone is responsible for about a …

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, November 2025.

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 8, November 2025.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1652 on December 28 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

What do we know about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26? A lot actually, thanks to the usual leaks that precede a new Samsung mobile launch event.

Netflix's trailer for the "Stranger Things" series finale teases the Hawkins teens' final confrontation with Vecna.

See the moon phase expected for December 27, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $34.97 — a one-time payment for lifetime access.

The best kitchen deals to shop if your New Year's resolution is to cook more at home, including cookware, cookbooks, air fryers, and more.

We’ve known for a long time that improving the built environment’s energy efficiency is good for the planet. A recent report by McKinsey Sustainability makes it clear how good it can be for business, too. And with nearly one-quarter of human-produced greenhouse gases tied to making, transporting and…

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, Borderless, Ensia, Planet Detroit, Sahan Journal, and Wisconsin Watch, as well as the Guardian and Inside Climate News. The project was supported by the Joyce Foundation. You can read the launch stor…

The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins.

The Salvation Army Trading Company has suspended the collection of donated textiles from household waste and recycling centres, citing rising donation volumes, increasing costs and wider economic pressures affecting the used clothing sector. The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) has suspended …

Parliamentarians, councils and industry representatives have met at Westminster to discuss the growing number of fires linked to discarded lithium-ion batteries, amid calls for stronger regulation and government support. A cross-sector group of parliamentarians, local government representatives and …

More than half of people say they recycle less over Christmas.
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The chair of the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has written to the environment secretary expressing “deep disappointment” at the government’s response to its waste-crime inquiry.
The post Lords write to environment secretary over “complacent” response to waste crime inquiry …

The European Parliament has approved an agreement with member states to narrow the scope of EU sustainability reporting and supply-chain due diligence rules.
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Stats show continued progress away from landfill in Northern Ireland, but little movement in recycling rates
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Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods that occurred on both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission. The panoramas were captured at 4:15 p.m. on…

Introduction The Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) was initially designed in the late-1980s and early-1990s as a facility instrument for NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). Since its inception, NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC) has led this effort. CERES has a long history wi…

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Directorate of Navigation was pledged close to €1 billion by the Agency’s Member States during this week’s ESA Council at Ministerial Level (CM25) on 26 and 27 November in Bremen, Germany.With the continuation and expansion of the NAVISP and FutureNAV programmes and…

Isiah Whitlock Jr., an actor best known for playing the corrupt state senator Clay Davis on “The Wire,” died on Tuesday in New York, Variety has confirmed. He was 71. His manager, Brian Liebman, shared the news on Instagram, writing: “It is with tremendous sadness that I share the passing of my dear…

Spike Lee has paid tribute to his longtime collaborator Isiah Whitlock Jr., who died on Tuesday in New York at age 71. Lee shared a photo of himself with Whitlock on Instagram on Tuesday, writing, “Today I Learned Of The Passing Of My Dear Beloved Brother ISIAH WHITLOCK. GOD BLESS.” Whitlock played …

Whether you want to battle Star Wars spaceships or shoot a cinematic masterpiece, one of these drones is going to be perfect for you.

Stranger Things, City of Shadows, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft are just a few of the shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.

A humble shelter operating out of a tent remains the last beacon of hope for the injured and hungry animal population in war-ravaged Gaza, even as its workers and volunteers face their own impossible conditions.“You cannot look at a creature that trusts you and eat in front of it without sharing,” S…

A firsthand account of an explosion along the Venezuelan coast on Dec. 18 is raising questions about who may have been responsible for the attack and whether it was connected to the U.S.’ escalating pressure campaign against the South American country

It's all the truck he needs — one that picks up a new mattress from the furniture store, takes him to work and has ample space for groceries.“Most people have way more truck than they will ever use,” said David McChristian, 37, a firefighter from Houston.

It’s been two years since Jehan Trazi last celebrated Christmas

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between Ensia and Egab, a media startup that helps young local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa get published in regional and international media outlets, with a focus on solutions journalism.  When Egypt banned bird hunting in L…

When people think of the impacts of climate change, they often focus on physical harm, such as loss of homes and businesses to wildfire, or illness due to floods, wildfire smoke or heat. That physical harm, however, can easily lead to financial devastation. And, as a new report from the U.S. Departm…

At first glance, one might consider it good news: The volume of electronic waste recycled is growing. At a closer look, the statistics are less savory: E-waste generation is accelerating five times faster. In The Global E-Waste Monitor 2024, released in March, the United Nations Institute for Traini…

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between Ensia and Egab exploring environmental efforts by communities facing potentially more urgent concerns such as war and poverty. Egab is a media startup that helps young local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa get published …

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.

The future of conflict is cheap, rapidly manufactured, and tough to defend against.

Monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to choose one that will suit your needs and budget.

Graphite is an effort to unify
illustration, raster editing, desktop publishing, and animation in one
browser-based application. The project has been in development since
2021 and announced its first alpha release in 2022. According to creator Keavon Chambers, the project's mission is to become
"the…