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Several U.S. climate regulations aim to reduce burning of fossil fuels, a driver of climate change. Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies – won’t be simple and could have unintended consequences

Staff Writer - March 20, 2025

Imja Lake, a glacial lake in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, began as meltwater ponds in 1962 and now contains 90 million cubic meters of water. Its water level was lowered to protect downstream communities. Alton Byers

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As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millions − World Day for Glaciers carries a reminder

Lightning strikes the Mediterranean Sea. Matko Begovic/PIXSELL via Xinhua, via Getty Images

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The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped

Microplastics are tiny bits of plastic that show up in the environment. Svetlozar Hristov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics in the environment more reliable

COVID-19 has become a part of modern life that many people don’t pay much attention to. Spencer Platt via Getty Images News

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COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough to eliminate a disease

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What caused the ‘pause’ in global warming?

Staff Writer - October 29, 2014

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Study vindicates climate models accused of ‘missing the pause’

Staff Writer - October 29, 2014

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BICEP2 ‘gravity wave’ finding clouded by interstellar dust

Staff Writer - October 29, 2014

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For the love of cod, let’s save our disappearing seagrass

Staff Writer - October 29, 2014

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Five ways to stop the world’s wildlife vanishing

Staff Writer - October 28, 2014

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Who you calling an elephant? Animals have weight issues too

Staff Writer - October 28, 2014

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Dinosaur puzzle solved, revealing the weirdest-looking creature to walk the planet

Staff Writer - October 28, 2014

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When parallel worlds collide … quantum mechanics is born

Staff Writer - October 28, 2014

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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