Earth science
04 Sep 2025
Biological ‘moonshot’ accelerates efforts to genetically map life on Earth
An unprecedented effort to sequence the genomes of 150,000 eukaryotic species through inclusive global collaboration.
334 news posts in Earth and beyond
Space sciences and astronomy
01 Sep 2025
Circle versus rectangle: finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Guest editorial by Prof Heidi Newberg, an astrophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of a new Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences article
Environment
22 Aug 2025
Wildfires can raise local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires
Scientists studying the devastating Lāhainā, Maui fires of August 2023 found that deaths were two-thirds higher than expected that month — and 367% higher during the most intense week of the blaze.
Climate action
07 Jul 2025
How does a shrinking population weaken us in tackling the climate crisis? Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss on World Population Day
We’re highlighting five recently published Frontiers articles that examine the effects of shrinking populations, movement of people, and health of some demographic groups on a warming planet.
Climate action
03 Jul 2025
Climate crisis could force wild vanilla plants and pollinating insects apart, threatening global supply
Researchers find that a reduced overlap of suitable habitats for vanilla plants and the insects that pollinate them could threaten the survival of wild vanilla
Environment
24 Jun 2025
Wildlife forensic scientists develop new tool to detect elephant ivory disguised as legal mammoth ivory
Stable isotope analysis can tell apart ivory from mammoths dug up from the permafrost and modern elephants, closing a loophole for selling elephant ivory
Environment
17 Jun 2025
Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby
Scientists studying the impact of solar power on local neighborhoods find that most people living close to large-scale solar plants wouldn’t mind if a new plant was built nearby.
Earth science
10 Jun 2025
An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning
Veniaminof, Alaska, has frequent unexpected eruptions — modelling how they happen could help us protect people from unexpected eruptions.
Environment
09 Jun 2025
Protected Antarctic oceanic life threatened by ships anchoring, first underwater videos show
First video footage shows impacts of anchor and chain damage caused by cruise, research, fishing, and private vessels on Antarctic sea floor and animals, highlighting critically understudied conservation issue.
Environment
05 Jun 2025
Survival of the greenest: why world’s oldest organizations are surpassing young upstarts in environmental sustainability
In a new article published in Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, Daria Haner, Dr Yilei Wang, Dr Deniz Ones, Dr Stephan Dilchert, Dr Yagizhan Yazar, and Karn Kaura unveil surprising new findings: the world’s most sustainable businesses are the world’s most long-lived businesses, too. In this guest editorial, they explain their results, discuss the potential underlying reasons for their findings, and underline the importance of sustainability to the future of business.
Environment
27 May 2025
Global warming could be driving up women’s cancer risk
A study on Middle Eastern countries links higher temperatures to an increased risk of breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers.
Environment
20 May 2025
Baby on board: humpback whales give birth while migrating and carry on travelling
Humpback whale population’s recovery could reveal we were wrong about where humpback whales give birth — tropical waters aren’t the only nursery.
Environment
19 May 2025
‘Every single species is a unique product of evolution, like a work of art’: how Dr Kit Prendergast champions bees and biodiversity
Macrophotography and bee hotels introduced Dr Kit Prendergast to the world of native bees. Inspired, she began her PhD on protecting native bee biodiversity in urbanised habitats, and investigating the role of the introduced European honey bee on indigenous bee biodiversity and pollination networks. Since completing her PhD, she has worked in diverse roles as an ecological consultant, working to conduct native bee research for not-for-profits, environmental consultancies, Landcare groups, and local and state government, as well as with research institutions. She was awarded a Federal Government Grant to lead a project using bee hotels to help with the recovery of native cavity-nesting bees after the 2019/2020 bushfires. She is also a prolific science communicator, and has won a number of awards for her articles and scientific outreach.
Climate action
09 Apr 2025
Our power, our planet: Five Frontiers articles for Earth Day
Earth Day, an annual event to show support for the protection of the Earth and what’s living on it, is almost upon us. To celebrate, we’re highlighting five recently published Frontiers articles on energy, ecosystems, and the environment.
Environment
08 Apr 2025
Trees could be spying on illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest
By examining mercury concentrations in tree rings, researchers showed that trees could be witnesses to illegal gold mining activities in the Amazon, highlighting their potential as biomonitors