Amazon and Google think artificially intelligent assistants will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic ...

In May 2024, floodwaters submerged much of Porto Alegre. Brazil’s fourth-largest city lost bridges, hospitals, and months of economic output. Hundreds died. The images briefly commanded global ...

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...

Before the advent of the highway, the railway, and the airplane, the rivers were the major routes used for trade, migration, ...

Iran struck three data centres in the Middle East, and has signalled that technology infrastructure will continue to be in the firing line.

About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador’s northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction.

Gulf countries rely heavily on plants that make sea water potable — for drinking and for industry, including farming, oil ...

The journey loosely follows the Amazon’s flow and features Peschak’s photographs of the region’s biodiversity, novel wildlife behavior, and unique ecologies of rarely seen species. Take a look at some ...

From coral reefs and sinking cities to vanishing glaciers and disappearing islands, this guide explains what’s putting 17 iconic places at risk—and how travelers can reduce harm through smarter timing ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought. By Sachi ...

After a sharp jump in 2024, the oceans rose much more slowly the following year – even as global temperatures and ocean heat kept climbing. That raised an obvious question: If the planet is still ...