Gallery: To Save the Oceans, These Guys Are Turning to Sci-Fi

While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent.

As coastlines change, so do surf breaks. That may spell the end for premier waves and the tourist economies that depend on them.

Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later.

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.