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

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

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

Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near...

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly

Alcina Johnson Sudagar, Washington University in St. Louis Concrete is all around you – in the foundation of your...

Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers bracing...

Joel Lisonbee, University of Colorado Boulder and William Baule, Texas A&M University Cattle auctions aren’t often all-night affairs. But...

What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Machine-made snow makes ski...

Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder and Agnes Macy, University of Colorado Boulder When viewers tune in to the...

Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009...

Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including...
A fresco shows St. Francis speaking to the birds in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. Photo Beto/iStock Getty Images Plus

800 years after his death, the legends and legacy of Francis...

Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...

Lebanon’s orchards have been burnt, wildlife habitat destroyed by Israeli strikes...

Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College and Josiane Yazbeck, Université La Sagesse More than a year after a ceasefire nominally ended...

EXPLORING NATURE

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

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison