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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalitiesAlmost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticid…
Wednesday briefing: What’s behind the global backlash against datacentres?
In today’s newsletter: Communities from Scotland to India are pushing back against datacentres they feel have been forced upon them, warning they threaten energy supplies and the …
Specieswatch: Deciduous trees are marching north and ousting evergreens
Northern landscapes could soon look different, as wildfires and storms disturb boreal forestsA warmer world is making high latitude forests more deciduous and less evergreen, rese…
APOD: 2026 September 2 – Solar Eclipses and Culture
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 2 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cos…
Polluting Nylon Plants Clean Up Their Acts
Many of our impact case studies cover ongoing stories that Inside Climate News continues to actively cover. The impact reflected here is current as of publication and may be updat…
Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready?
Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environm…
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphereGlobal heating will reach at least 1.8C under even th…
Scientists discover the key ingredients that make birdsong pretty
What makes birdsong beautiful? Answering this question could help us understand how soundscapes make the natural world relaxing for humans, opening the door to improving parks, up…
Agentic AI accelerates search for crops that can harvest critical minerals
For too long, the United States has relied on foreign sources for most of the raw materials powering its technological future: the essential minerals in every smartphone, battery …
Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth, but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed?
Microbes from space have fueled the plots of science fiction mainstays like "Project Hail Mary" and "The Andromeda Strain." But with more space missions launching each year, findi…
Magnetic beads streamline large-scale analysis of disease-linked glycopeptides
A research team has developed a reliable, economical laboratory method that uses tiny magnetic beads to study proteins with sugar molecules attached to them in blood and tissue sa…
New high-temperature, high-pressure isotope ratio analysis method developed for halogenated compounds
Halogenated organic compounds (HOCs) are widely used in industrial and consumer products, but some are highly persistent and difficult to analyze and manage. In a new study, resea…
Algorithm improves detection of differentially expressed genes in large single-cell trajectory data sets
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a method for measuring gene expression in individual cells, allowing observation of various cellular processes, including cell differenti…
Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Law
A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, ruling that it “conflicts with” federal authority. The legislation would have required fossil fuel compa…
Firelight may have sparked human storytelling by extending social hours
New research from the University of St Andrews has developed a novel hypothesis of how firelight was critical to the evolution of sophisticated storytelling.
Muddying the waters makes stickleback fish more coordinated, study finds
Stickleback fish can change their social behavior to help them find food in cloudy water, according to a new University of Bristol study published in Proceedings of the Royal Soci…
Survey reveals marine biodiversity hotspot needs protection
An environmental DNA study by a multi-institutional research collaboration has revealed distinct regions of extraordinary marine biodiversity that can help inform management of a …
At the Grand Canyon, Flooding and Wildfire Underscore Compounding Extreme Weather Risks
An intense downpour at Grand Canyon National Park transformed hiking trails and shallow creeks into deadly rapids over the weekend, killing at least two people. Following scattere…
Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggest
New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the moon may have f…
Saturn encounter may have set distant centaur on path to becoming a comet
More than 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) from Earth, an ancient icy object is slowly awakening. As it drifts inward through the solar system, the frozen body known as Ce…
A roadmap for animal-free chemical testing
For many years, the European Union has pursued a policy aimed at the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing (the 3Rs principle). To put the ethical principle of t…
A sustainable flame retardant derived from corn steep liquor
Certain phosphorus compounds are highly effective at suppressing fires, which is why they are widely used in flame retardants. Phosphorus, however, is a finite resource. Estimates…
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwi…
Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot replaced a camera and a docking aid during a 6-hour, 49-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tue…