Clothing giants H&M and Zara have been linked to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence and corruption in the Brazilian Cerrado, according to an investigation by Earthsight. Using satellite images, court more

Scientists say a fossilised jawbone found in Somerset may be from one of the biggest sea creatures ever. more

Regulators just imposed unprecedented fees on water usage in the state's agricultural heartland. more

Plans to relocate an Indigenous community from a tiny Caribbean island off Panama to the country’s mainland to escape rising seas have been delayed due to administrative issues, previous COVID-19-related more

Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study findsAverage incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 more

Creating visually distinctive plants likely to become important as more weed-like crops are grown for foodGenetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without pesticides, as it more

Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangersMany Europeans value the lives of elephants more

Living deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kukama Kukamiria Indigenous community have spent generations with their feet in the Marañón, the river emerging from the Andes that provides the main more

Cars submerged in raging flood waters, planes on flooded runways and ankle-deep water at a metro station – this is what the United Arab Emirates and its desert city of more

SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Sumatra’s Barisan Mountains more

This story was produced as part of Climate Solutions, a collaboration focused on community engagement and solutions-based reporting to help Central Pennsylvania move toward climate literacy, resilience and adaptation. StateImpact Pennsylvania more

The dramatic decline of marsh tits in an ancient Cambridgeshire woodland is a story repeated across the UK as human activity drives species towards extinctionRead more: World faces ‘deathly silence’ more

Scientists have finally discovered why this remarkable plant becomes hungry for bugsIt sounds like a science fiction horror movie – a carnivorous plant that grows up to 60 metres high more

JAKARTA — South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, to procure aluminum for its electric more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01123-3Unusual microbial communities in a person’s lower airways could influence the onset and progression of lung cancer and other conditions, and might point the more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01136-yBrain areas work in tandem to temporarily store important information, and an aurora on a cool brown dwarf. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07298-zStreptomyces are discovered to produce antibacterial protein complexes that selectively inhibit the hyphal growth of related species, a function distinct from that of the more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07296-1The trapping of triply charged 229mTh3+ is described and its nuclear decay half-life determined, showing useful properties for the development of a nuclear clock more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01092-7Wastewater testing grew tremendously during the pandemic. But is it ready to tackle the opioid crisis, air pollution and antibiotic resistance? more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07218-1Research published in Nature shows that surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy carried out with colloids can quantify a range of molecules down to concentrations at the more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01074-9Static electricity generated by the foot striking the ground can be captured to kill pathogens. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01135-zAn ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01098-1Virologist Hulda Jónsdóttir studies some of the world’s most pathogenic viruses at the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07274-7Datasets from in situ warming experiments across 28 arctic and alpine tundra sites covering  a span of less than 1 year up to 25 years show more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07279-2Near-field radiative heat transfer between two coplanar silicon carbide membranes in close proximity is enhanced by the electromagnetic corner and edge modes. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01090-9A United Nations-backed agreement to end plastic pollution is within reach — but only if scientists, civil society and businesses unite against powerful vested more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07329-9A screen utilizing an environmental DNA library in Escherichia coli is used to identify Brig1, a previously unknown anti-phage defence system with homologues across more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01110-8Algorithm examines images of metastatic cells to identify the location of the primary tumour. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01015-6A technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can detect tiny quantities of compounds in solution, but has been difficult to use for quantitative analysis. A more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00858-3Mating between different species has often been considered an evolutionary dead end, but a study in longwing butterflies suggests that such hybridization could underlie more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07297-0Challenging the belief that sympathetic ganglia are an innovation of jawed vertebrates, a study reports the presence of sympathetic neurons in an extant jawless more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07327-xWe propose a model for a sequential, multistep activation mechanism of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5, including a series of structures in lipid nanodiscs, more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07190-wMethane emission from a very cool brown dwarf, perhaps arising from an aurora, has been detected in James Webb Space Telescope observations. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07311-5A study investigates subcellular, single-cell and network-level comunication within the astrocyte network in response to the two major neurotransmitter inputs. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00920-0A clear-cut success. more

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07293-4Measurements of fly muscle activity using a genetically encoded calcium indicator and high-speed imaging of wing movement were used to construct a model of more

Scientists say it's shaping up to be the worst one yet. more

At the end of February, a curtain of flames engulfed the Texas Panhandle, eventually marking the state’s largest wildfire in history. The blaze was merciless, burning through more than 1 more

For people living within three miles of a large solar farm, positive attitudes about the development outnumber negative ones by about a three-to-one margin, according to a new national survey more

In 2015, smelly mats of a brown macroalgae called sargassum piled as high as 1.2 meter (4 feet) on the beaches of Barbados, recalls Joshua Forte. It was the fourth more

Measures throughout 2023 to curb the illegal gold trade in Brazil led to a 20% drop in the country’s exports of the precious metal. more

Indigenous people from Arctic communities are calling for environmental protection in the runup to this month’s round of negotiations aimed at securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution. U.N. more

Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologistsRead more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: more

In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the more

Muhammad Zain Ul Haq, a 23-year-old university student and climate activist in British Columbia may be deported to Pakistan in less than a week.  Haq, who goes by Zain and more

Activists found more than 5,000 trucks and buses passing through a single neighborhood in a day. more

What can sound tell us about nature loss? Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01133-1Political candidates are increasingly using ‘softfakes’ — obviously AI-generated content — to boost their campaigns and whitewash their reputation. Plus, AI now beats humans more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01086-5Female academics need more support — in China as elsewhere more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01094-5Paring down the astronomical complexity of the protein-folding problem, plus Isaac Newton’s ambiguous use of the word ‘axiom’, in the weekly dip into Nature’s more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01084-7It’s time to talk about the hidden human cost of the green transition more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01091-8Many researchers think that Wegovy and Ozempic should be taken for life, but myriad factors can force people off them. more

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01085-6The world needs a COP for water like the one for climate change more

From shallow-water reefs in the Red Sea to graceful gorgonian species in the Caribbean and the rugged branching corals that form the structure of the Great Barrier Reef, the past more

Even if everything goes well and the targets set by the Paris Agreement are met, average temperatures are expected to rise by 2.7° Celsius (4.86° Fahrenheit) this century, according to more

Bolivia is racing to attract foreign investment in its massive, untapped lithium reserves, with plans to expand operations and build new processing plants. But residents living near the lithium deposits more

The ninth Our Ocean conference takes place this week in Athens, Greece. It is the largest and highest profile conference of its kind, and attracts presidents and celebrities, who all more

No one on the Colombian island of Providencia was prepared for what happened on the night of Nov. 16, 2020. Not even Josefina Huffington, who had survived four hurricanes. That more

BORGER, Texas—Months before the Texas Panhandle erupted with destructive wildfires, fire crews in Borger were igniting fire intentionally on a seven-mile, roughly 250-foot wide ribbon of land on the edge more

In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on international markets. The project not only preserves their highly biodiverse rainforest, more

A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’We draw our moral lines in arbitrary places. We might believe more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01076-7As the annual phenomenon once again strikes East Asia, scientists are hard at work to better predict how they will affect people. more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01120-6Upbringing and life experience matter more than genetics when it comes to being a good navigator. Plus, AI could help predict lethal dust storms more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01109-1The agency’s head calls the current plan for delivering samples collected by the Perseverance rover ‘too expensive’ and its schedule ‘unacceptable’. more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07244-zWe introduce strong tailored light-wave-driven time-reversal symmetry breaking in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride, realizing a sub-laser-cycle controllable analogue of the topological model of Haldane more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01096-3A pioneering ‘connectomics’ collaboration has successfully reconstructed one cubic millimetre of brain tissue, but researchers are still just scratching the surface of the complexity more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01115-3Results from the telescope could help to end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed. more

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00660-1An exclusive analysis shows that economics and interdisciplinary teams get the attention of policymakers. more

Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system. more

Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in tropical forests and palm-oil plantations ‘almost always’ an indicator of future deforestation, say researchersA vast network of undocumented “ghost roads” is pushing into the more

In a resignation letter, an adviser called carbon credits "scientifically, socially, and from a climate perspective a hoax." more

The food we eat causes one third of all greenhouse gas emissions, as forests are cleared at an ever-growing rate to make way for new cattle pastures, soy fields, cocoa more

The brightest burst of light ever recorded was caused by a supernova, but that prompts new questions. more

An extensive analysis of satellite imagery has uncovered thousands of miles of unmapped roads slicing through Asia's tropical rainforests.Read more on E360 → more

Nature, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07401-4Author Correction: Controlling the helicity of light by electrical magnetization switching more