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For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort

Staff Writer - March 29, 2019

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Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when trees leaf out above them

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Climate change could enable Alaska to grow more of its own food – now is the time to plan for it

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Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and loss

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The Trump administration is scrapping a collaborative sage grouse protection plan to expand oil and gas drilling

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By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...

Staff Writer - October 29, 2022

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Nearly 60 million Americans don’t drink their tap water, research suggests...

Staff Writer - April 15, 2021

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Ancient groundwater: Why the water you’re drinking may be thousands of...

Staff Writer - October 12, 2021

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What is a heat dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather...

Staff Writer - June 26, 2023

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Americans who live far from coasts should also be worried about...

Staff Writer - August 28, 2017

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Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major...

Staff Writer - May 27, 2023

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Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight...

Staff Writer - September 9, 2020

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Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them...

Staff Writer - November 18, 2020

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Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA

Health

Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...

Staff Writer - September 15, 2024

Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope

In Colorado, many people run, bike and climb in mountain lion habitat. DEA/ C. Dani I. Jeske/De Agostini via Getty Images

Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions as attitudes...

September 14, 2024

Sunflowers use tiny movements to follow the Sun’s path throughout the day. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...

September 13, 2024

A white-shouldered bumblebee, Bombus appositus visits the flowers of a goldenbanner. Julian Resasco, CC BY-ND

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...

September 10, 2024

The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India’s largest hydropower dams. Nayan J. Nath, CC BY

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...

September 4, 2024