Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic activities from a controversial bill that critics say violates the Constitution. more

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with her sister, she laughed, repeating a little rhyme more

Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate targets out of reach and incur huge economic costs. That’s more

Microplastics are a growing ecological and human health crisis: Scientist have found the tiny plastic particles everywhere they’ve looked for them, including human placentas and brains. In a new documentary, more

Application, submitted by Cranswick, would have created one of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in EuropeA megafarm that would have reared almost 900,000 chickens and pigs at any more

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), named after their characteristic “to-kay” calls, are among the largest geckos in the world and inhabit rainforests and human-modified landscapes across South and Southeast Asia. As more

Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centersOil and gas barons who donated millions of dollars to Donald Trump’s presidential more

Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisisVoting is now open! Vote for your favourite here“We are following the more

Last summer, Brice Acton watched drought devour the fields of his small family farm in southern Ohio. It took just a matter of days. First, the corn stalks in sandy more

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder. more

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has found. Once famed for their undisturbed natural ecosystems, the Galápagos Islands more

Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01029-8After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning. more

Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00971-xLunar soil processed to form ‘moonglass’ allows the creation of efficient, radiation-resistant solar panels. more

Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01010-5Dozens of problematic papers remain in the literature, after a publication hit by fraudsters pledged to tackle the issue. more

Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08951-xStrategic atom replacement enables regiocontrol in pyrazole alkylation more

The New Arab and The Shift co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. As the sun hung low over the Nile, casting golden ripples across the water, we more

Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females. more

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of more

As interest in nuclear power rises, startups are pursuing plans to recycle spent fuel and reuse its untapped energy to power reactors. Advocates tout new recycling methods as a breakthrough, more

The rapid rise of e-commerce and food delivery services has transformed consumption patterns worldwide. In an effort to reduce plastic waste, the European Union introduced policies such as the Packaging more

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this gas can wreak more

If Peter Dutton needs to court the crossbench to form minority government after the election, he would risk putting his Coalition partner offside on climate and environment policyElection 2025 live more

To address the devastating effects of wildfires in Western North America, the nonprofit Conservation X Labs (CXL) and its partners have awarded $50,000 each to 12 shortlisted teams seeking to more

The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in MexicoVoting is open! Choose your favourite invertebrate hereImagine your body more

Experts are desperate to analyse rusty patched bumblebee nests for information that might help save them. But they are extremely hard to find – unless you’re a trained conservation canineWords more

A sea lion sickened by toxic algae attacked a teenage girl in Long Beach, California, on Sunday, the latest episode of erratic behavior from affected animals.Read more on E360 → more

As government agencies slash staff managing federal lands, rural populations dependent on outdoor tourism face mounting economic and environmental risks that are trickling down from the cuts. The Trump administration, more

Mentions of environmental concerns on S&P 500 earnings calls have plunged. more

The Department of Transportation has threatened to pull funding for high-profile climate-friendly projects in California, New York, and Washington, D.C. more

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves. more

A 19th-century zoologist found the ‘little salt dweller’, which could be a portal to the past – if only we could locate it againLast February, with colleagues Gert and Philipp more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08747-zThe acetylene hydrogenation activity and stability of a palladium single-atom catalyst are both controlled by the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the oxide support. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08759-9A RISC-V microprocessor capable of executing standard 32-bit instructions has been designed with 5,900 MoS2 transistors and a complete standard cell library based on more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08796-4Neonatal antibiotic use is shown to reduce immune response to infant vaccines, accompanied by reduced abundance of Bifidobacteria in the gut microbiota, with experiments more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08719-3A modelling study shows that the trace-element composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust is similar to that of the current average continental crust, severely compromising more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01020-3The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00933-3Researchers are debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. But they have some clear advice for parents. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08761-1Non-classical correlations between two photons in the near-field regime give rise to entanglement in their total angular momentum, leading to a completely different structure more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00861-2Large-scale analyses of electronic health data suggest that the herpes zoster vaccine could protect against dementia — but it’s not yet clear how. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08804-7In thromboinflammation, early tissue plasminogen activator administration directly improves endothelial barrier function, prophylactic defibrotide and enoxaparin suppress microvascular thromboinflammation through endothelium-mediated mechanisms and combining more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08793-7Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00902-wMirror-image isomer blends have been converted into a single isomer by a light-activated copper catalyst — a challenging reaction that prevents the waste of more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08753-1A head-to-head double-ring complex of the human multifunctional DNA repair protein RAD52 mediates protection of stalled replication forks during replication stress, protecting them from more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00560-yResearchers describe how they are using skills honed in the laboratory in their creative pursuits. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00973-9A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests. more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08784-8A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond more

Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08744-2A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour more

CHINCHINA, Colombia — “Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has gone completely mad!” says coffee grower Oscar Gomez from more

Public health advocates assessing Josh Shapiro’s first two years as Pennsylvania’s governor concluded that he hasn’t done enough to protect residents from the damaging effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural more

You might think that ‘hero rats’ are the lead characters of a new Pixar movie, but these happen to be actual African Giant Pouched Rats, trained by the organization APOPO. more

Invertebrates may be the unsung heroes of the planet but they have received a lot of love and recognition from Guardian readers. A dazzling array of nominations have flown in more

At least 30 people were killed and more than 48,000 hectares, or 119,000 acres, of land was burned in fires that raged over the last week of March in South more

African gray parrots, one of the world’s most trafficked birds, can no longer be captured or traded across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tshopo province, a key transit route for more

A new study finds warming could inflict far more damage to the global economy than previously assumed.Read more on E360 → more

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon more

The flood-affected area in outback Queensland has grown to double the size of Victoria after experiencing its worst deluge in 50 years. Water broke the banks of a makeshift levee more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00915-5Why really good trombones sound the way they do, and the peculiar motion of creatures in the ocean, in this week’s dip into Nature’s more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00931-5As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind. more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01007-0China has already taken steps to reduce retractions of papers from its hospitals more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01002-5The European Union’s new research chief Ekaterina Zaharieva speaks to Nature about attracting disaffected US scientists and cutting grant bureaucracy. more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00997-1‘Supershear’ quake moved fast and far, amplifying the damage and human toll. more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00972-wMulti-year episodes of the climatic pattern are much more frequent now than they were seven millennia ago. more

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01006-1Minerals will shape future geopolitical order more

You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for more

Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the waters around Antarctica have grown mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why.Read more more

According to Indigenous legal experts, the freeze erodes the little trust Indian country has in the federal government. more

By grazing between trees and removing potential wildfire fuel, wild horses help protect Galicia’s delicate ecosystems, but Europe’s largest herd has declined to just 10,000 Continue reading more

Skyfly's aircraft promises the flexibility of a helicopter without the cost, noise or emissions. more

Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals. more

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00986-4The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. more

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00936-0Marine ecologist Gemma Galbraith builds remotely operated vehicles and uses them to assess how coral reefs are being affected by climate change. more

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00969-5More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks. more

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00934-2An exploration of weird and wonderful birds across the world sometimes takes theories of sexual selection to the extreme — but entertains throughout. more

Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best imagesOf tinkerers and dreamers: more

Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state. more