Arctic Greening

While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.

The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide.

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”

In the early 20th century, public outcry following Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to stricter food safety protocols. NASA took them a step further.

From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. Here’s what to expect.

While a bunch of sharks cruising the Maine coast may seem ominous, it’s actually a sign of a conservation success story.

The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.

While Trump administration cuts have contributed to the epidemic of foodborne illnesses this summer, there are also deeper issues that make the American food supply chain susceptible to parasites and bacteria outbreaks.

“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”