50 news posts in Environment

Frontiers news

22 Apr 2026

World’s leading science competition announces 25 international pioneers who can help humanity live within Earth’s boundaries

The Frontiers Planet Prize has announced 25 National Champions from leading research institutions across six continents – exceptional scientists whose research advances our understanding of our Earth system, while offering practical, scalable solutions to help keep humanity safely within the planetary boundaries.

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13 Apr 2026

18% of gray whales that enter San Francisco Bay die there, scientists find

The climate crisis is driving starving gray whales into busy San Francisco Bay, where they are hit and killed by vessels

Environment

09 Apr 2026

Frontiers in Science: Halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being

Immediate call for global action to shift world towards a “nature positive” approach is published in Frontiers in Science.

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13 Mar 2026

Race against time to save Alpine ice cores recording medieval mining, fires, and volcanoes

Glacier ice can reveal air pollution dating back to the Roman Empire — but the climate crisis is destroying this frozen archive

Environment

27 Feb 2026

Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants

Scientists use insects trapped in amber to understand ecosystems that died out millions of years ago

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20 Feb 2026

Scientists reveal our best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica

New study on the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the choices we make in the next decade will determine Antarctica’s fate for centuries

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10 Feb 2026

Bison hunters abandoned long-used site 1,100 years ago to adapt to changing climate

As drought and rising organizational demands for larger hunting operations hit at the same time, ancient hunters adapted to severe droughts by shifting the way and where they hunted, study shows

Life sciences

27 Jan 2026

96% accurate footprint tracker for tiny mammals could help reveal ecosystem health

New footprint identification technology can identify ecosystem-critical species which were once only distinguishable by DNA.

Life sciences

21 Jan 2026

DNA tests reveal mysterious beluga family trees

Groundbreaking DNA analysis of Alaskan beluga whales shows both males and females have many different mates.

Frontiers news

15 Oct 2025

Frontiers and World Economic Forum unveil top technologies to accelerate global climate and planetary health solutions

The World Economic Forum and leading open science publisher Frontiers today launched the inaugural 10 Emerging Technology Solutions for Planetary Health report, a landmark publication spotlighting ten breakthrough innovations that could accelerate global efforts to tackle climate change, restore ecosystems, and build long-term resilience. These technologies offer scalable, science-based solutions to help society operate within planetary boundaries and foster a more sustainable relationship with Earth's systems.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.