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Wildfire smoke leaves harmful gases in floors and walls − air...

Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University When wildfire smoke turns the air brown and hazy, you might think about...

Homes that survived the Boulder County fire hid another disaster inside...

Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder; Joost de Gouw, University of Colorado Boulder, and Michael Hannigan, University of Colorado Boulder

PFAS are showing up in children’s stain- and water-resistant products –...

Kathryn Rodgers, Boston University Even if children’s stain- or water-resistant clothes are advertised as “green” or “nontoxic,” they might...

Canary in the Gold King Mine: legacy of abandoned mines means...

Ronald R H Cohen, Colorado School of Mines You are gazing over the clear stream, thinking of fishing the crystal waters in the Rockies. The...

EXPLORING NATURE

How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...

Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?