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Greenland Warns a Trump-Linked Oil Company to Stop

Are U.S. Water Systems Being Targeted by Iran?

The Oceans Are Running Out of Oxygen

Was Water a Factor in the Diarrhea Outbreak?

The Plan to Move Water from the Desert to Cities

How Space Weather Can Make It Rain—or Not

Got Milk? It Might Have Less Protein and Fat

How Water Became the Next Front in the Battle over Abortion

The "Flamingo Revolution”

From the Arctic to Zombies

A Data Center Turns Water Brown

Colorado Just Legalized “Balcony Solar.” What Is It and Will Your State Plug in Too?

Another Strait Is Closing

The War with Iran Endangers Marine Life

Hungarians Are Hungry for Climate Action

How the “God Squad” Could Cause Whales to Go Extinct

These Courts Could Challenge Climate Change

How Sea Turtles Record History

Water as a Weapon of War

"Forever Water"—What Happens in L.A., Stays in L.A.

You Can’t Have ICE Without Water

The Endangered “Endangerment Finding”

A “Widespread Collapse of American Agriculture”

The U.S. Government Is Being Sued…for Murder

What Trump May Want From Greenland Beyond Minerals

How Environmental Damage Fueled Iran’s Protests

Fighting Fire with Sound—No Water Required

Revenge Scorn—Trump Cancels a Water Pipeline in Colorado

Some in the West Pay High Prices for Water, While Others Get It for Free

A Mushrooming Industry That Serves the Dead

Data Centers…in the Sky?

Climate Change Is Making Food Less Nutritious

Planes Could Soon Run on Garbage

A Major World City Could Run Out of Water

How Whales Can Help Humans Live Longer

Your Computer Could One Day Run on Mushrooms

How “Liquid Air” Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Suppose They Gave a Coal Auction and Nobody Came

A New Silk Road Through the Arctic

Your Dog’s Carbon “Paw Print”

A High Five for the High Seas

Why Sharks Could Lose Their Fearsome Bite

How “Def Con Franklin” Is Defending Water Utilities

How Tariffs Could Strain Water Supplies

How a Doorbell Camera Can Save Water

Watering Down Water Protections

Did National Weather Service Cuts Worsen the Disaster in Texas?

Flash Mob—Finding Love in a Hotter, Drier World

How Norway Achieved a Nearly 100 Percent Recycling Rate

Do Bans on Plastic Bags Work?

The Magic of Mixing Soda Cans, Seawater, and Coffee

The Oceans Are Getting Darker

Plants Get Sweeter When They "Hear" Bees

A Different Kind of Powerball

Putting This Weed on Your Plate Could Protect the Ocean

Trees Know an Eclipse Is Coming Before it Starts

Could Climate Change Make Rice Unhealthy?

Nations Agree to First-Ever Global Fee on Greenhouse Gases

Butterfly Diplomacy—How the U.S. and Mexico Are Working Together in the Trump Era

Making Acid Rain Great Again?

Bursting a Weather Forecaster’s Balloon

Why Climate Change Means Fewer Satellites

No NOAA, No Safety?

Greenland’s Most Valuable Resource Isn’t Its Minerals

Weather Forecasting Could Become an Unsafe Free-for-All

How DeepSeek Could Deep-Six U.S. AI Companies

Why Leaving the Paris Agreement May Not Be a Bad Thing

How Trump Could Slow the L.A. Recovery

The Whiplash That Led to Disaster

The Legacy of the First Green President

Drought Talks Dry Up

Car Paint That Packs a Charge

Giving AI the Side-Eye

A New Compound Has Been Identified in Tap Water

What Trump’s Nominees Portend for the Environment

Could China Now Become a Green Superpower?

Ratting Out Traffickers

Could This Group of Voters Decide the Election?

Sharks or Saboteurs. What Could Bring Down the Internet?

Your Toothbrush Is a Laboratory

Is It Fluoride's Last Ride?

A “Silver Tsunami” Is Hitting the Water Industry

What Caused a 650-Foot Tsunami?

New Antibiotics Could Come from the Arctic

Did Climate Change Sink a Superyacht?

The Military Defies an Order to Clean Up Groundwater

What's the Environmental Record of Governor Tim Walz?

What’s the Climate Record of Kamala Harris?

A Water War Over Who Gets What and When Is Now Managed with a Smartphone

Meet a Unique Storm Chaser

A River Sued a City—and Won

In This State, the Kids Are All Right

Supreme Court Guts Protecting Air and Water

Will Climate Change Factor in the November Elections?

How Wetland Scientists Made D-Day a Success

“Day Zero” Approaches in Mexico City

Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos?

Oil Giants May Have to Pay for Climate Damage

Sacking Sackett? Biden Moves to Protect Wetlands

"Fool’s Gold" May Turn Out to Be Golden

How Taking a Walk Can Clean Water

Women Could Drive the Electric Vehicle Revolution. What’s Stopping Them?

Cyberattacks Are Striking Water Systems

The Benefits of Noisy Neighborhoods

A Man Was Indicted for Smuggling…Greenhouse Gases

The European Union Moves to Criminalize Ecocide

Despite the War, Ukraine Plans to Be a Green Energy Hub

The Lies of the Plastics Industry—Exposed

It’s Getting Harder for Some Trees to Breathe

Frozen Assets—The Race Against Time to Protect Priceless Artifacts

A Beverage That Slows Aging

Your Next Email Could Heat a Swimming Pool

How Boxed Wine Is Better Than Bottled

How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials

Was This Year’s COP Half Full or Half Empty?

Phase Down? Or Phase Out?

The War in Israel Comes for U.S. Water Systems

They’ve Been Called an “Ecological Train Wreck”

Going Nuclear in a Small Way

Could This Discovery Be a Climate Game Changer?

Kicking the Salt Habit

Could a Houseplant Detect Toxins in Water?

Screwed. Why DIY Repairs Are So Difficult

Fireproofing Your Home with Fungi?

Why Some Trees Are Worsening Air Pollution

Drought Is Drawing Saltwater Upriver

Worried AI Is Taking Jobs? It’s Also Taking Water

Telling Plastic to Fork Off

The Push to Privatize Water

As Climate Disasters Increase, So Do Government Subsidies for Fossil Fuels

Planting Rocks to Crush Climate Change

Actually, Contrails Can Be Bad

Your Next Winter Coat Could Help Store Carbon

How “Project 2025” Could Eviscerate Climate Action

A Different Kind of Climate Change Is Happening Under Your Feet

Where’s Crawford Lake—and Why Should You Care?

Painkillers Are Derived from Crude Oil—But That Could Change

The Potentially Everlasting Life of a Bottle

Spot On—Getting the Ground Truth About Severe Weather

Why Curly-Haired People Are Cooler

They Knew the Dangers—But Hid Them from the Public

The Supreme Court Hangs the Clean Water Act Out to Dry

Footprints You Leave on the Beach Contain Your DNA

Getting the Lead Out—with Sponges

When a Dustup Is a Good Thing

How Climate Change Means More Pirates

How “Crustivoltaics” Could Restore Arid Lands

How Penguins Dump on Climate Change

A New Twist in the Climate Change Story

A Grueling Sporting Event Is Doing Science

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon”

One Hundred Days of Solitude…Under the Sea

High Hopes for the High Seas

William Shakespeare…Eco Warrior?

Whales Are Wailing Less and Fighting More

How the Super Bowl Could Power Your Next Flight

The Last Straw for Plastics

How to Help Poor Countries Protect Nature

Three Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Climate

A Royal Pain—How King Tides in California Reveal a Troubling Future

This “007” Keeps the Ocean Safe from Plastic

The True Reason for Attila the Hun’s Raids

Red to Grow, Blue to Flow

Turning Ocean Plastic into Pharmaceuticals

A Railroad Strike Could Derail Water Systems

Four Dams Are Coming Down

One of the Winners in the Midterms? The Climate.

A Drone You Can Eat?

Skip This Chore to Help the Climate

A New Water Supply for Colorado?

Blowhole Energy Could Be the Cheapest Renewable

How a Town Survived Hurricane Ian Without a Scratch

How Solar Panels Save Water

A Car That Captures Carbon As It Drives

A Sea Creature That Lives Forever

Powering Your Car with a Lobster

Turning Wind Turbines into Gummy Bears

This “Lightning” Could Power the Grid

Too Little Water in California? How About Too Much.

To Make This Battery Work, Just Add Water

One Solution to the Climate Crisis is a Pane in the Glass

Going Outside...How Hot Is Too Hot?

How Aspirin Can Fight the Pain of Climate Change

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

How Salt Can Predict Rain

A Way to Combat Climate Change That the Supreme Court Can't Stop

Feds Give States Just 60 Days to Act

Can We Worm Our Way Out of Our Plastic Pollution Problem?

Congress Appears Pumped to Fight Climate Change

How Golfers Can “Eat Their Greens”

Ships that Run on Ocean Plastic

The Not-So-Sweet Side of Sugar

Using Old Face Masks to Cut Carbon

Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change

Taking the Waste Out of Wastewater

Cacti Are in a Prickly Situation

Turning Plastic into a Climate Solution

Using Garbage to Break Ties with Russia

A Vegetable That Can Clean Drinking Water

Rivers and Lakes Are Still Polluted 50 Years After the Clean Water Act

Kite Energy Might Start to Soar

Putin’s War in Ukraine Freezes Arctic Research

The Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine

Tips from the Bible on Eating Sustainably

Generating Power While Saving Water

A Guilt-Free Shower...Even in Droughts?

A Setback for Oil and Gas

A Winter Olympics Without Any Real Snow

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Sewer Water

Swimming in the Seine, Again

How Inmates Are Saving an Iconic American Landscape—and Themselves

The World War II Bomber at the Bottom of Lake Mead

Fading Fast? Colorado's Iconic Aspen Trees Will Likely Decline with Climate Change

The Dam Nobody Wants Just Won’t Go Away

DAMNED FROM THE START

Dryland: Farmers in Some of the Toughest Places to Do Agriculture Are the Ones Innovating for Climate Change

Pipe Dream—One Couple’s Ideal Job of Moving Water Under Mountains

Little Ditch. Big Deal.

The Vaux Family Legacy—Seeing Climate Change in Black and White

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