Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution’s ‘pervasive grip’

Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award.
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Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award.
Drone captures footage of a humpback whale missing its tail fluke — an injury suspected to be from long-term entanglement in fishing gear.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams join more than a dozen astronauts who’ve been stranded in space by mechanics, weather or geopolitics since the 1970s.
New record-breaking fast-charging technology can power up your smartphone battery quicker than you can write an email.
The world can be a pretty mysterious place, but scientific questions need scientific answers.
Stargazers may be in for a rare treat this summer. What looks like a new star could appear in the constellation Corona Borealis. The brightening point of light will not really be a new star. It will be light from…
Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners.
The year’s first supermoon is also the third full moon in a summer that includes four, making it a ‘blue supermoon’. Here’s how to see August’s full Sturgeon Moon rise.
The WHO made the declaration as a potentially more infectious version of the deadly virus has emerged and mpox cases are rapidly rising across Africa.
A new James Webb Space Telescope analysis of the giant, metal-rich asteroid Psyche reveals signs of hydration in the form of rust. This could help pin down the mysterious rock’s origins.