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Five-month-old male gorilla, victim of illegal wildlife trade, seized in Istanbul

On Dec. 22, 2024, Turkish customs officers conducting a random search of a plane’s cargo hold found a surprise stowaway inside a small wooden crate with holes: a malnourished baby [...]

As Gálapagos ecotourism booms, top naturalist guide urges sustainability

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS — Marco Andres Vizcaino Garcia is probably the most qualified naturalist guide a person could hire during their visit to Galápagos National Park and its adjacent marine reserve. [...]

This rescue center saves Rio’s wildlife from poachers | Wild Targets

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden staff. They were sending [...]

‘James Bond’ lizard among 35 new species described from Caribbean islands

Shaken, not stirred: That’s how fictional secret service agent James Bond prefers his martini. And now there’s a lizard in the Caribbean that shares his name: the James Bond forest [...]

Explained: how Trump’s day one orders reveal a White House for big oil

From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive ordersThrough a flurry of executive orders, a newly inaugurated Donald Trump has [...]

As the northern latitudes warm, ice is melting and vegetation is growing more abundant. But instead of absorbing more carbon, the region is becoming a source of heat-trapping gas, a [...]

Historic Arctic freeze for US South and record rain in Western Australia

The southern states of the U.S. are facing a winter storm this week that will bring heavy snow and ice to a region that rarely experiences such conditions. More than [...]

Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties

Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policiesClimate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against [...]

The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis beached Brazil’s floating communities

Some areas of the Amazon experienced their worst drought in 120 years in 2024. Brazilian rivers such as the Negro fell to their lowest levels on record, affecting more than [...]

World’s addiction to fossil fuels is ‘Frankenstein’s monster’, says UN chief

António Guterres issues warning at Davos, days after Donald Trump pulled US out of Paris climate agreementDavos day two live – latest updatesThe world’s addiction to fossil fuels is a [...]

Burning wood for power not necessary for UK’s energy goals, analysis finds

Experts say UK should stop biomass burning as electricity sector decarbonisation by 2030 can be achieved without itThe UK should stop burning wood to generate power because it is not [...]

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s plans to build two maximum-security prisons in sensitive ecosystems and Indigenous territories without consulting local populations. [...]

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

Across the country, people fighting climate change and pushing for cleaner energy systems are facing a bleak new reality. President Donald Trump has upended their work with executive orders he [...]

The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close.

Americans waste more than 300 pounds of food per person per year, study says. [...]

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the trees left standing, potentially changing the structure of forests, a recent [...]

‘Putricia for president’: Sydney’s blooming corpse flower becomes a cult hero – to those who can’t smell her

Acronyms, in-jokes and online fan clubs spring up as viewers across the globe prepare for Sydney’s first corpse bloom in 15 years – from a safe distanceGet our breaking news [...]

‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform a barren ranch into rainforest

Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have [...]

‘Appalling’: charities warn of UK government betrayal over river clean-up fund

Charities in England that bid for share of millions say idea that Treasury could keep money is ‘heartbreaking’Charities that bid for a share of millions of pounds of water company [...]

From trainee to trainer: how I’m empowering imaging scientists in Latin America

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04252-xA lack of experienced imaging trainers in her native Uruguay put Marcela Díaz on the path towards mentorship. [...]

Cancer cells ‘poison’ the immune system with tainted mitochondria

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00176-2Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board. [...]

Want to become a professor? Here’s how hiring criteria differ by country

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00143-xHuge analysis identifies regional variations in the criteria that institutions use to move researchers up the ranks. [...]

CD45-PET is a robust, non-invasive tool for imaging inflammation

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08441-6A non-invasive in vivo positron emission tomography imaging approach detects inflammatory disease using various preclinical models. [...]

Complete human recombination maps

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08450-5Complete human recombination maps are presented that enable exploration of both cross-over and non-cross-over events during meiosis, with the potential to provide insight into [...]

RELMβ sets the threshold for microbiome-dependent oral tolerance

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08440-7RELMβ mediates a gut immune–epithelial circuit regulating tolerance to food antigens, offering targetable candidates for the prevention and treatment of food allergies. [...]

US scientist cleared of hiding ties to China sues university that fired him

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00153-9Feng ‘Franklin’ Tao says that the University of Kansas violated its own policies after he was wrongly arrested under the China Initiative. [...]

Global 3D model of mantle attenuation using seismic normal modes

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08322-yUsing whole-Earth oscillations to constrain a 3D global model of attenuation for the whole mantle, low attenuation correlates with low velocity in the lower [...]

Synthesis of a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet with point Fermi surface

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08330-yVan der Waals (Cr,Bi)2Te3, synthesized by non-equilibrium molecular beam epitaxy, is characterized by magnetotransport measurements and shown to be a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet, with [...]

A scalable system using mini-organs to test personalized RNA therapy

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00078-3A rapid and efficient method developed to create stem-cell-based 3D mini-organs derived from the cells of patients offers a way to evaluate personalized treatments [...]

Field–particle energy transfer during chorus emissions in space

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08402-zWhistler-mode chorus waves have been observed in the tail region of the terrestrial magnetosphere, where the magnetic field is not dipolar so that chorus [...]

Ultrabroadband integrated electro-optic frequency comb in lithium tantalate

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08354-4An integrated electro-optic frequency comb that combines microwave integrated circuits with a photonic circuit based on lithium tantalate leads to broadband operation with low [...]