Climate change increasingly threatens democratic processes while environmental pollution affects wildlife behavior and space exploration reveals potential signs of ancient life.

Climate-driven natural disasters disrupted 23 elections across 18 countries in 2024, with heatwaves, floods and wildfires posing mounting threats to democratic institutions worldwide.

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered organic molecules on Mars that may represent chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.5 billion years, though scientists cannot definitively determine if they indicate past life.

Gibraltar's macaque monkeys have learned to eat soil to counteract stomach problems caused by consuming salty and sugary tourist snacks, demonstrating behavioral adaptation to human-caused dietary changes.

Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes is disrupting salmon behavior, with fish swimming further distances and dispersing more widely after exposure to environmental levels of the drug and its metabolites.

New research reveals that mud-rich coastlines made the 2011 Japan tsunami far more destructive, as waves traveling over mud-rich rice paddies exerted significantly more force than previously understood.