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“Weather whiplash” is fueling blazes across Florida and the region.
“Weather whiplash” is fueling blazes across Florida and the region.
Extreme heat is already wiping out soy, coffee, berries, and Christmas trees. Farm animals and humans are suffering too.
Yes, it hurts to be human right now. That’s actually the assignment.
The city is part of “the most physically vulnerable coastline in the world.”
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Glycol vapors, explained.
From taxes on nicotine to hotel rooms, states are looking for ways to pay the skyrocketing bill.
El Niño is coming. And its impacts may last far longer than it does.
What you didn’t know about Mennonites, soy, and Bolivia.
The link between gun sales and conservation, explained.
The cognitive trap that’s making us underestimate the Iran crisis.
Coal’s century at the top of the world’s power mix is over.
The enormous environmental toll of meat and dairy, explained in 8 charts.
America’s fishing paradox.
These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.
Lionfish leather and AI to reduce bird collisions: See all the innovations that a new “biodiversity” VC firm is backing.
Batteries that could help drive the switch to renewable energy are already, well, driving.
Are we paying for infrastructure we won’t need?
The reality behind Trump’s push to log more public forests is weirdly complicated.
Scientists are keeping their climate work alive by any other name.
Ski slopes are closed, sprinklers are banned, and more restrictions are still to come.
The world’s poorest countries are paying the price for a war they didn’t start.
Gas — and lots of others things — are still getting more expensive.
Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them.
And the magic number when owning an EV starts to pay off.
How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.
Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened.
The Mideast energy truce is breaking down.
4 billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.
Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them.
A first look at new research from the forests of central Mexico.
The spiraling conflict is a lifeline for Russia’s leader.
And what it reveals about wildlife encounters in the years to come.
We can extract CO2 from the ocean. Can it turn into a business?
The Iran war shows yet again that US oil is still vulnerable to foreign shocks.
Our coasts are more vulnerable than we realized.
Around the world, energy is becoming abundant — there’s just one problem.
New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.
Cows are draining the Colorado River.
Skimo enters the Winter Olympics at the most tragic time.
Cautious consumerism isn’t a bad thing, but there’s a lot we don’t know about these products.
How did Costa Rica beat back deforestation and buck the global trend?
Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?
The end of the endangerment finding, briefly explained.
First, lawsuits.