Nature Outlook

To address an onslaught of crises, people must tune into natural ways to repair water cycles that human development has severely disrupted

Cities are reducing the risk of flooding by preserving and restoring natural features both inside and beyond their urban footprint.

Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

Decisions about land use and infrastructure have left little space for water, amplifying the effects of natural disasters and climate change.

All energy production has environmental and societal effects. But calculating them — and pricing energy accordingly — is no easy task.

Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.