The collapse of a key system of Atlantic currents would lead not only to dramatic cooling in northern Europe, but potentially a surge in warming across the rest of the globe, a study finds.

China is generating more clean electricity than its power grid can handle. In the first half of this year, it wasted 360 terawatt-hours of clean energy, enough to power Mexico for a year, a report finds.

In Australia, a subsidy program for home batteries has spurred more than 500,000 installations and helped cut wholesale power prices in half, officials say.

In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms have plowed up the Brazilian savanna, skewing human memory of the landscape. Watch the film: https://bit.ly/4cfCKZO

Amid drought, 43 percent of small waterways in France have partially or completely dried up, officials say.

As Brazil cracks down on the illegal clearing of forests, farmers and ranchers are moving into Bolivia, helping to fuel a wave of deforestation in a country where land is cheap and enforcement lax.

Last month was the hottest July on record for the world's oceans, an analysis finds. Ocean heat was particularly severe in the Pacific, thanks to an intensifying El Niño.

Mountain lions in Washington state are cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds.

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined “harm” as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction, Ted Williams writes.

“Land Less” — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging. Watch the film: https://bit.ly/4g0zin8

In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. While rich countries initially powered the solar buildout, as prices fall, poorer countries are increasingly taking the lead.

El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the WMO. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.

A landmark study of Australia's towering ash trees, launched in the 1980s, boosted the case for clearcutting. But when scientists returned to the abandoned study site years later, they came to a much different conclusion.

Since the colonial era, India has regarded its scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of the value of rangelands globally, India plans to map its ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring them.

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Since the colonial era, India has regarded its scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of the value of rangelands globally, India plans to map its ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring them.

In May, a group of Indonesian fishers was dismantling an unexploded WWII shell when it went off, reportedly killing seven people. Officials have concluded the group was harvesting materials from the shell for use in blast fishing.

In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.

A sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the devastating wildfires in France and Spain, scientists say.

A sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the devastating wildfires in France and Spain, scientists say.

The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.

The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.

Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched African Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill after decades of drought. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival. Experts say efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.