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Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend...

Marco A. Janssen, Arizona State University; Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Parvathy Prem, Johns Hopkins University

The missing link in America’s critical minerals push isn’t mining –...

Hélène Nguemgaing, University of Maryland and Alan Collins, West Virginia University The United States is spending billions of dollars...
Henry David Thoreau investigated the Sudbury River as America’s first river scientist. Robert M. Thorson

Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859....

Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung...

Jill Johnston, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California and Shohreh Farzan, University of Southern California Southern California’s...

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...

Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...

Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment...

Anne McNeil, University of Michigan and Madeline Clough, University of Michigan It seems like every day a new study...

A connection to nature fuels well‑being worldwide, according to a study...

Stylianos Syropoulos, Arizona State University; Christina Jinhee Capozzoli, Arizona State University, and Lea Barbett, FernUniversität in Hagen When life...

Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil...

Antonio Machado Allison, Wesleyan University Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a...

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