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Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to…

A dozen red roses may say ‘I love you’, but many conventional bouquets carry an environmental price, having been imported by air, dipped in chemicals and…

During Cop30 negotiations in Brazil last year, delegates heard a familiar argument: rising emissions are unavoidable for countries pursuing growth.Since the first Cop in the 1990s,…

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 light-years away which is Earth-sized and has conditions similar to Mars.The candidate planet, named HD 137010…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Over the past couple of weeks oil—specifically, Venezuelan oil—has been all over the…

Nature, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04148-4What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild…

Humans are altering the planet on an unthinkable scale, both by converting vast tracts of wilderness into farms and cities and by pouring huge volumes of…

When we imagine a planet, we think of one like ours, orbiting a star. But some have a far lonelier existence, drifting through interstellar space without…

The first minister of Wales has said she is determined for Welsh Labour not to lose its crown as the world’s most successful democratic party, despite…

]]> A super-hot planet that orbits its star closely has somehow managed to retain a thick atmosphere — even as the star’s radiation blasts it1. Access…