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U.S. Geological Survey staff check monitoring equipment in Suicide Basin in June 2025. By August, the basin had filled with meltwater. Jeff Conaway/U.S. Geological Survey

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Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing global risk as mountain glaciers melt

Staff Writer - August 15, 2025

Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

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As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights

A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, destroyed homes near the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

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Many Texas communities are dangerously unprepared for floods − lack of funding plays a big role

The Sun’s distance from Earth allows it to be habitable for life. DrPixel/Moment via Getty Images

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Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted

The Aedes mosquito is a vector of several viral diseases, including eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, and West Nile fever. Lee Haines, CC BY-ND

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Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why

Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel positions stand in sharp contrast with efforts to protect the climate. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

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How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change...

Staff Writer - January 22, 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

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

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

Staff Writer - December 21, 2024

EXPLORING NATURE

SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches in August 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

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Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship could transform astronomy by making space...

Staff Writer - January 11, 2026

Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Institution After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully...

Skiers and snowboarders walk across dry ground to reach a slope at Bear Mountain ski resort on Dec. 21, 2025, in California. Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...

January 8, 2026

Solar power has been expanding quickly, but natural gas is also booming. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...

January 6, 2026

Why did this community burn one woman’s remains in such a visible, spectacular way? Patrick Fahey

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

January 3, 2026

U.S. researchers are seeking the light at the end of a rough year for science. Westend61/Getty Images

‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers...

December 31, 2025