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Nanoparticles on a glass slide amplify the sensitivity of a microscope to detect trace amounts of hazardous pollutants. Brandon Martin/Rice University

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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

Staff Writer - February 28, 2026

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, hosts a supercomputer that scientists rely on for weather and climate research. National Science Foundation

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images

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Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

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Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images

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Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why

Neighbors fill and pass a bucket of pool water to help extinguish a spot fire in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2025. Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Image

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Neighbors and strangers pulled together to help LA fire survivors –...

Staff Writer - January 20, 2025

People who lost their possessions in the fire that swept through Altadena, Calif., look through donated shoes and clothing on Jan. 15, 2025. AP Photo/Richard Vogel

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News coverage boosts giving after disasters – Australian research team’s findings...

Staff Writer - January 19, 2025

Two people embrace on Jan. 9, 2025, in Altadena, Calif., amid property destroyed by the Eaton Fire. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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Rents rise faster after disasters, but a federal program can help...

Staff Writer - January 15, 2025

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...

Staff Writer - January 14, 2025

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Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires...

Staff Writer - January 13, 2025

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...

Staff Writer - January 11, 2025

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

Staff Writer - January 10, 2025

The global ocean’s surface temperature was still well above average going into 2025. Meaghan Skinner Photography/Moment via Getty Images

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2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve

Staff Writer - January 9, 2025

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The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, hosts a supercomputer that scientists rely on for weather and climate research. National Science Foundation

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...

Staff Writer - February 25, 2026

Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

February 19, 2026

Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the...

February 17, 2026

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes –...

February 17, 2026

Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of heat stroke on hot days, among many other human harms. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

February 12, 2026