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After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’

The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their landsWhen the plane took off from Vancouver’s airport, bound north [...]

You love the outdoors. So why are you pooping all over it?

Millions of Americans a year visit national parks and many leave their business anywhere. Contrary to popular belief, that deluge of poop is not going to decomposeLast year, I watched [...]

Brazil’s last asbestos miners are switching to rare earth minerals. Can they offer a brighter future?

The small city of Minaçu is hoping to challenge China’s dominance in servicing the global appetite for minerals key to the green energy transitionMinaçu, a small city in inland Brazil [...]

Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership

Texas is awash in billions of gallons of produced water, the wastewater brought to the surface in oil and gas drilling and fracking.  Most produced water is injected into disposal [...]

National Science Foundation to Leave Virginia headquarters as HUD Moves Out of DC

The National Science Foundation will be moving so the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development can take over its offices in Alexandria.  The 1,800 employees at the science foundation [...]

London Inches Closer to Running Transit System Entirely on Renewable Power

Under a new agreement, London will source enough solar power to run its light railway and tram networks entirely on renewable energy.Read more on E360 → [...]

Life on landfill: the people who scrape a living from our waste – in pictures

Three leading female photographers – Gulshan Khan, Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger – explore the complex global entanglements of climate crisis, environmental justice and human survival Continue reading [...]

Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester

North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, tooAway from where arable fields have enriched [...]

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas icebergOne [...]

Why we need mandatory safeguards for emotionally responsive AI

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02031-wVirtual chatbots that simulate conversations with famous actors or sci-fi characters can have real-world consequences. [...]

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09309-zAuthor Correction: Targeting the SHOC2–RAS interaction in RAS-mutant cancers [...]

How fast is your brain ageing? Ordinary scans reveal the pace

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02086-9Images hold clues to risk of dementia and various age-related diseases. [...]

Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01939-7Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship. [...]

Extend your reach by turning your lessons into podcasts

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01829-yBy taking a few technical steps, I’ve made my teaching more accessible to my students — and to biologists around the world. [...]

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02078-9Global pandemic agreement needs sustained pressure to succeed [...]

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02079-8It should be free to apply to graduate school [...]

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02076-xProtect Iran’s scientists from attacks [...]

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02077-wHuman space travel risks contaminating Mars [...]

Postdocs file for union recognition at University of Michigan

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01828-zInternational scholars targeted by Trump administration are among those seeking greater protection. [...]

‘Place’ neurons recognize the same spot from close by and far away

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01716-6Place cells are neurons that encode spatial locations. Experiments in chickadees reveal that the cells activate even when those locations are viewed from a [...]

Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02016-9The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate. A new road map outlines how to extend [...]

What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food and more emissions.

New research sheds light on how rising temperatures are squeezing farmers and raising prices for consumers. [...]

Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy

Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide [...]

Part of the New York City Park Experience: Joining the War on Invasives

It’s on the walls of brownstones and train stations and in New York City parks. And it isn’t mold—it’s English Ivy.  A non-native plant, English Ivy (Hedera helix) outcompetes native [...]

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes. Meteorologists and scientists warned of severe [...]

Two coasts, one struggle for octopus fishers battling overfishing and warming waters

ASTURIAS, Spain, and YUCATÁN, Mexico — On a mild February morning, Isaac Blanco quickly places half a sardine into each cage as his brother, Julio, steers their boat along the [...]

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The [...]

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it disappeared in 2017. He’s also summited the nearby Pico Humboldt, the [...]

Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave

Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warningsA vicious heatwave has engulfed southern Europe, with punishing temperatures that have reached highs of [...]

Flying ants: why this year’s mating season could be longer and more frenzied than ever

Warm weather and wet conditions caused by the climate emergency could trigger huge swarms of winged ants this July, experts warn. But why do they all take to the skies [...]