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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.

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.

Last year in the Brazilian Amazon, the acres of rainforest burned reached its lowest level in at least four decades.

Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the coast of Benin, scientists have at last found the reef. via @insideclimatenews.org

In Appalachia, severe floods are linked to spikes in opioid overdose deaths, new research finds.

The draining of the Aral Sea has liberated huge stores of carbon once trapped in the lakebed. Since 1960, it has unleashed 748 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — three times the yearly emissions of Spain, a study finds. via @grist.org

A Japanese steel giant has pledged billions in new investment in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, raising hopes that it would clean up pollution from its steel mills in the region. But documents show that its plans to ramp up production will worsen air quality.

Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is just the fifth new species of African monkey recorded in the last 75 years.

China is erecting the largest hydropower project on Earth atop an active fault line in the Himalayas. Chinese scientists are calling on engineers to reinforce the project to guard against risks from earthquakes.

Europe recorded more than 10,000 excess deaths during an unprecedented June heat wave, an analysis finds.

A group of Ugandan farmers has brought suit in the U.K. High Court against a controversial oil pipeline being built in East Africa. The suit is a last-ditch effort to halt the project before it goes online in October.

As EV sales boom, researchers are racing to develop batteries that are cheaper, more powerful, and less reliant on hard-to-source materials. Lithium-ion still dominates, but sodium-ion and solid-state technologies are moving from lab to market.

How much plastic is in our bodies? Microplastic contamination and unreliable methods have complicated efforts to find an answer. Scientist Cassandra Rauert — who built a plastic-free lab to study human exposure — explores the challenges for researchers.

As oceans warm, a key system of Atlantic currents is at risk of collapse. According to a new study, there is at least a 10 percent chance that a collapse is already “locked in.”

In the Adriatic Sea, large numbers of bottlenose dolphins are looking to fishing trawlers as a source of food, a sign that dolphins may be struggling to feed themselves in waters depleted by overfishing.

As home batteries have become cheaper, smaller, and more energy dense, a growing number of households are storing their excess solar power. Now, programs in dozens of countries are buying up that stored energy and using it to balance the grid.

In mountain regions from the Andes to the Himalayas, Indigenous people see the retreat of glaciers as a sign that they have lost the favor of their gods or ancestors.

As a 900-mile oil pipeline project in East Africa nears completion, its ecological risks are coming into focus. The pipeline is set to come online despite the reported abuse of people living in its path, and a campaign that rallied major banks against it.