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Children playing in polluted sand in front of AES Gener thermoelectric plant in Chile
Environment

For years, Chile exploited its environment to grow. Now it’s trying to save it.

By Miyo McGinn

How to survive a tsunami
Environment

How to survive a tsunami

By Kate Baggaley

An illustration of an asteroid, at right foreground, passing through Mercury's orbit, seen in the middle background, with the glare from the sun shining brightly on the left.
Science

This speedy space rock is the fastest asteroid in our solar system

By Hannah Seo

Male black jacobin hummingbird on a branch
Environment

Hummingbirds routinely hit 9Gs like it’s no big deal

By Jon Dunn

pumpkin toadlet brachycelphalus rotenbergae with mouth open
Environment

This adorable new toadlet has glowing bones

By Sara Chodosh

An Alagoas Brazilian screech owl
Environment

Whose hoot? DNA and sound studies help define two new owl species in Brazil.

By Erin Fennessy

The fossilized skull of the newly discovered L. aliocranianus dinosaur.
Science

This newly discovered dinosaur is called ‘the one who causes fear’ for a reason

By Emily Cerf

SISS-Geo app
Health

The next pandemic could be lurking anywhere. Can this wildlife-tracking app help prevent it?

By Brian Barth, Flávia Milhorance

A pack of llamas on top of a canyon in Peru
Environment

Llamas are hotter than ever. Here’s why.

By Emily Wakild/The Conversation

chinchilla
Environment

How 25 chinchillas could save a mountain

By Ed Stoddard/Undark

A drone-photograph shows an illegal mine in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. The image shows two artisanal pools, where the miners separate gold from rocks using mercury.
Health

A pandemic-created ‘gold rush’ in the Amazon is destroying Indigenous lands

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Aerial view of deforested area of the Amazon rainforest
Environment

The Amazon has shrunk by 24,000 square miles over the last decade

By Liberty Vittert/The Conversation

Brazilian farmers owe Monsanto $7.7 billion, court rules
Environment

Brazilian farmers owe Monsanto $7.7 billion, court rules

By Karine Eliane Peschard/The Conversation

South America’s second-largest forest is burning, just like the Amazon
Environment

South America’s second-largest forest is burning, just like the Amazon

By Joel E. Correia/The Conversation

These Latin American teens refuse to be overlooked at global climate strikes
Environment

These Latin American teens refuse to be overlooked at global climate strikes

By Maria Paula Rubiano/Scienceline

Turns out there’s a shocking number of electric eels, and some could give off 1,000 volts
Environment

Turns out there’s a shocking number of electric eels, and some could give off 1,000 volts

By Jess Romeo

Fires in the Amazon have given us a lot to worry about, but the Earth’s oxygen supply isn’t one of them
Environment

Fires in the Amazon have given us a lot to worry about, but the Earth’s oxygen supply isn’t one of them

By Scott Denning/The Conversation

Archaeologists unearth more evidence that when a civilization drinks together, it stays together
Science

Archaeologists unearth more evidence that when a civilization drinks together, it stays together

By Alex Schwartz

front, side, and from-below view of a tentacle-nosed catfish
Environment

Megapixels: These tentacle-nosed catfish are aquatic superheroes

By Jessica Boddy

Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain
Environment

Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain

By Charlie Wood