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When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook

Staff Writer - November 3, 2023

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Hundreds of fish species, including many that humans eat, are consuming plastic

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Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies

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Does cloud seeding work? Scientists watch ice crystals grow inside clouds to find out

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The world’s ocean is bearing the brunt of a changing climate. Explore its past and future in our new series

The lunar south pole’s terrain is rugged, and it can reach extreme temperatures. Michael Karrer/Flickr, CC BY-NC

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Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better...

Staff Writer - January 20, 2025

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After a fatal shark attack on Cape Cod, will the reaction...

Staff Writer - September 29, 2018

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Are solar and wind really killing coal, nuclear and grid reliability?

Staff Writer - May 12, 2017

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The extraordinary return of sea otters to Glacier Bay

Staff Writer - April 26, 2017

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Protecting wetlands helps communities reduce damage from hurricanes and storms

Staff Writer - October 13, 2018

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Chlorine is a highly useful chemical that’s also extremely dangerous −...

Staff Writer - November 28, 2023

Coronal mass ejections erupt from the Sun, as shown in this illustration of one from 2012. NASA/GSFC/SDO

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Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms −...

Staff Writer - February 23, 2025

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Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working...

Staff Writer - November 21, 2019

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Swimmers gather at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach for a Polar Plunge to start the new year, Jan. 1, 2025. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

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Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific...

Staff Writer - March 5, 2025

Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and...

How emotionally close you are to your pet is not necessarily a good measure of how your relationship affects your well-being. Nattalia Nuñez/Unsplash, CC BY-ND

Just having a pet doesn’t help mental health – but pet-owners...

March 1, 2025

Parts of the North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded in July 2022, and again in February 2025. Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Why people rebuild in Appalachia’s flood-ravaged areas despite the risks

February 26, 2025

In the toxic male technique, genetically engineered male insects would implant semen containing toxic venom into the female insects during mating. Madugrero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease...

February 23, 2025

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made it his life’s mission to delay aging and death. Netflix

The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught...

February 23, 2025