MAHARASHTRA, INDIA — In clinics and labs around the world, scientists are uncovering a consequence of air pollution that received little attention for decades: Polluted air not only damages the lungs ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

A new study has shown that messages of hope can be effective in promoting creative problem-solving around sustainability. Experts from the University of Nottingham's School of Psychology developed a ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

The climate crisis is typically framed through the lenses of carbon, capital, and technology. Yet one of its most powerful and underutilised dimension lies in gender. Evidence across countries now ...

New Orleans could be surrounded by sea water in a matter of decades according to new research. The study says the US city has reached a “point of no return”, and that rising temperatures and sea ...

Sargassum is washing up on South Florida beaches in mountainous amounts, rotting into a gag-worthy mush. It’s scaring away tourists, making swimmers itchy and costing millions to clean up. Scientists ...

Thomas Barrett has already seen more wildfires across Georgia this spring than he cares to recall. Two massive blazes in the southern part of the state were finally under control several weeks after ...

Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine's science correspondent, reflects on the legacy of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," the climate change documentary he rated "a tepid two stars" 20 years ago, on ...

Satellites have revolutionized the way scientists measure global temperature, sea levels, and ice loss — but subtle calibration errors and algorithmic biases may be quietly shaping how we understand ...

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The new World Bank flagship report ...