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A home burns in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2025. AP Photo/Ethan Swope

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LA fires: Why fast wildfires and those started by human activities are more destructive and harder to contain

Staff Writer - January 14, 2025

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Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort

Water runs from a pipe where a home once stood in the Pacific Palisades community of Los Angeles in January 2025. Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images

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Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s what Los Angeles needs to know

An EPA-sponsored cleanup of toxic waste from the Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2016. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

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How the EPA administrator protects public health, air, water and the environment

The U.S. bought Alaska and its significant natural resources and beautiful scenery for what amounts to a steal. AP Photo/Mark Thiessen

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Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867

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Even ugly animals can win hearts and dollars to save them...

Staff Writer - June 22, 2017

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Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River

Staff Writer - June 15, 2017

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US exit from Paris climate accord makes discussing how and whether...

Staff Writer - June 12, 2017

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To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution

Staff Writer - June 9, 2017

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Why Trump’s decision to leave Paris accord hurts the US and...

Staff Writer - June 4, 2017

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Scientists at work: Forecasting the Atlantic hurricane season

Staff Writer - May 27, 2017

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Understanding tornadoes: 5 questions answered

Staff Writer - May 20, 2017

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Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of...

Staff Writer - May 15, 2017

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3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...

Staff Writer - December 23, 2024

Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...

The giant panda’s diet is almost 100% bamboo. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...

December 22, 2024

Dark comets accelerate through space but don’t have a dusty tail like most comets. Adina Feinstein and NASA’s Earth Observatory

2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell...

December 22, 2024

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier −...

December 21, 2024

Animals with long lifespans tend to reproduce extremely slowly. Els Vermeulen

Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential...

December 20, 2024