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Customers have embraced electric vehicles; policy changes may decrease that interest but will not eliminate it. Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive

Staff Writer - August 5, 2025

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The gas tax’s tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure

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How the bottled water industry is masking the global water crisis

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Some coastal areas are more prone to devastating hurricanes – a meteorologist explains why

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How the Earth’s tilt creates short, cold January days

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Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded...

Staff Writer - July 24, 2023

The beans that created this cup of coffee had a long journey. Guido Mieth/Moment via Getty Images

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How Europe’s deforestation law could change the global coffee trade

Staff Writer - September 2, 2025

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Cities need more than air conditioning to get through heat waves

Staff Writer - August 9, 2017

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As the Trump administration retreats on climate change, US cities are...

Staff Writer - February 20, 2018

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Glacial lake outburst floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving...

Staff Writer - October 10, 2023

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Packaging generates a lot of waste – now Maine and Oregon...

Staff Writer - September 8, 2021

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Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in...

Staff Writer - June 22, 2021

Amanita mushrooms are commonly used in mushroom-based products. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

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The growing fad of ‘microdosing’ mushrooms is leading to an uptick...

Staff Writer - August 17, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

Harlan’s ground sloth fossil skeleton excavated and displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Larisa DeSantis

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Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the...

Staff Writer - October 22, 2025

Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of Pennsylvania A two-toed sloth at the...

Demonstrators in Portland, Ore., protest on Oct. 4, 2025, against President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to the city. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Trump’s National Guard deployments reignite 200-year-old legal debate over state vs....

October 21, 2025

If consumed in high doses, lead and other heavy metals have serious, well-documented health risks. whitebalance.space/E+ via Getty Images

Protein powders and shakes contain high amounts of lead, new report...

October 18, 2025

Many physicians who aren’t U.S. citizens come to the U.S. to do medical residency programs. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

How new foreign worker visa fees might worsen doctor shortages in...

October 17, 2025

Many fruits and vegetables are high in antioxidants. istetiana/Moment via Getty Images

Antioxidants help stave off a host of health problems – but...

October 17, 2025