Saturday, April 11, 2026 11:26 AM ET
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City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world -- Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles; Peter Mikula, and Piotr Tryjanowski2 days ago
Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future -- Renee Obringer, Penn State and Dave White, Arizona State University2 days ago
Why the Persian Gulf has more oil and gas than anywhere else on Earth -- Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington2 days ago
Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming -- Aya S. Chacar, Florida International University3 days ago
Toxic dust from California's shrinking Salton Sea is harming children's lung growth – we tracked the impact in 700 kids -- Jill Johnston, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California and Shohreh Farzan, University of Southern California4 days ago
Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s -- Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology8 days ago
You're not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company -- Will Rice, University of Montana and Bing Pan, Penn State9 days ago
Winter's alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US -- Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder9 days ago
Trump's 'God Squad' pits energy vs. endangered species, but it's a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business -- Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago9 days ago
How California's war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone's air cleaner -- Ann E. Carlson, University of California, Los Angeles2 days ago
War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University14 days ago
Birutė Galdikas: The last of 'Leakey's Angels' in primatology's most extraordinary chapter -- Mireya Mayor, Florida International University12 days ago
2026's historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West -- Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University16 days ago
The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich's 'Population Bomb' is evident in anti-immigration efforts today -- Brian C. Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder; Harvard University and Emily Klancher Merchant, University of California, Davis16 days ago
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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University16 days ago
Over 400 million barrels will be added to the oil market soon – what are strategic reserves and what can they do? -- Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington18 days ago
In war-torn cities, air pollution from burning oil depots and bombed buildings unleashes invisible health threats -- Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona17 days ago
Targeting of energy facilities turned Iran war into worst-case scenario for Gulf states -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University22 days ago
Iran's nuclear materials and equipment remain a danger in an active war zone -- Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School23 days ago
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2025 WAS HOTTER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN – 5 INFLUENCES AND A DIRTY SURPRISE OFFER CLUES TO WHAT'S AHEAD -- Michael Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis1 month ago
Can you survive inside a tornado? This scientist did by accident – he's lucky to be alive -- Perry Samson, University of Michigan18 days ago
Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers facing wildfires and bracing for another tough year -- Joel Lisonbee, University of Colorado Boulder and William Baule, Texas A&M University1 month ago
Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving -- Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder1 month ago
Why do mountaintops stay snowy? -- Allie Mazurek, Colorado State University1 month ago
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Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth -- Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan22 days ago
Power outages in heat waves and storms can threaten the lives of medical device users – we looked at who is most at risk -- Matthew D. Dean, University of California, Irvine and Katherine Asmussen, University of Tennessee22 days ago
How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate -- Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Georgia Institute of Technology and Joe Frank Bozeman III, Georgia Institute of Technology29 days ago
How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source -- Promise Longe, University of Kansas1 month ago
How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper -- Noah Dormady, The Ohio State University1 month ago
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Despite its steep environmental costs, AI might also help save the planet -- Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro2 months ago
Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand -- Nikki Luke, University of Tennessee and Conor Harrison, University of South Carolina2 months ago
Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more power -- Barbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University3 months ago
Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay? -- Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida3 months ago
AI's ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency -- Divya Mahajan, Georgia Institute of Technology7 months ago
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The world's great fish migrations are collapsing – that's a problem for millions of people -- Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, Reno16 days ago
Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive -- François Leroy, The Ohio State University29 days ago
Venezuela's fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads -- Antonio Machado Allison, Wesleyan University1 month ago
How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone -- Clare E. Boerigter, United States Forest Service1 month ago
Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub -- Stephanie Kivlin, University of Tennessee; Aimee Classen, University of Michigan, and Lara A. Souza, University of Oklahoma1 month ago
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Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement -- Karen Schlatter, Colorado State University and Sharon B. Megdal, University of Arizona18 days ago
Alaska's glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods -- Dan McGrath, Colorado State University1 month ago
Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR's -- Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia1 month ago
How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue -- Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences1 year ago
Cement has a climate problem — here's how geopolymers with add-ins like cork could help fix it -- Alcina Johnson Sudagar, Washington University in St. Louis1 month ago
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EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won't stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive -- Alan Jenn, University of California, Davis1 month ago
Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise -- Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison1 month ago
EPA rescinds 2009 endangerment finding, clearing way for Trump to shred more US climate rules – but serious court challenges await -- Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University1 month ago
EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health -- Janet McCabe, Indiana University2 months ago
Trump's second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes -- Kenneth M. Evans, Rice University3 months ago
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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how -- Jacob A Tennessen, Harvard University15 days ago
Silicone wristbands can help scientists track people's exposure to pollutants like 'forever chemicals' -- Yaw Edu Essandoh, Indiana University1 month ago
PFAS are turning up in the Great Lakes, putting fish and water supplies at risk – here's how they get there -- Christy Remucal, University of Wisconsin-Madison2 months ago
What air pollution does to the human body -- Jenni Shearston, University of Colorado Boulder2 months ago
The US used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference -- James Salzman, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles3 months ago
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Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are 'resurrecting' their genomes to understand how and why -- Lily Peck, University of California, Los Angeles1 month ago
American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing -- Peter Simons, Hamilton College2 months ago
Why too much phosphorus in America's farmland is polluting the country's water -- Dinesh Phuyal, University of Florida2 months ago
How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty -- Stephen Acabado, University of California, Los Angeles2 months ago
Why 2026 could see the end of the Farm Bill era of American agriculture policy -- Christopher Neubert, Arizona State University and Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University3 months ago
Read more about food and agriculture4 months ago
A walk across Alaska's Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data -- Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder2 months ago
US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice -- Paul Bierman, University of Vermont2 months ago
In World War II's dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order -- Thomas Robertson, Macalester College1 month ago
West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology -- Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama3 months ago
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected -- Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder3 months ago
In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America's -- Coalter G Lathrop, Duke University25 days ago
Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk -- Leonardo Macelloni, University of Mississippi1 month ago
America's next big critical minerals source could be coal mine pollution – if we can agree on who owns it -- Hélène Nguemgaing, PhD, University of Maryland and Alan Collins, West Virginia University2 months ago
How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holes -- Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology11 months ago
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump's order could clear the way for operations soon -- Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii11 months ago
Read more about critical minerals10 months ago
What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out -- Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee4 months ago
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization -- Michael Childers, Colorado State University8 months ago
Hidden treasures of America's national parks are closer than you might think -- Jeffrey C. Hallo, Clemson University7 months ago
National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources -- Sarah Diaz, Coastal Carolina University and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University8 months ago
Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity -- Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University and Michael Childers, Colorado State University10 months ago
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Better urban design could help save Florida's threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel -- Eve Bohnett, University of Florida9 days ago
Pittsburgh's air pollution estimated to claim 3,000+ lives per year − and EPA rollbacks aren't helping -- Philip Landrigan, Boston College and Ella Whitman, University of Vermont23 days ago
Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water – 3 tips to deice responsibly -- Steven Goldsmith, Villanova University2 months ago
Why Philly has so many sinkholes -- Laura Toran, Temple University2 months ago