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The Conversation - Environment

As National Park System visitor numbers hit record highs, here's how visitors can adapt for a better experience - Allie McCreary, Auburn University and Michael Brunson, Auburn University

7 hours ago

Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact -- Barbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University

2 hours ago

One of Hurricane Katrina's most important lessons isn't about storm preparations – it's about injustice -- Ivis García, Texas A&M University; Deidra Davis, Texas A&M University, and Walter Gillis Peacock, Texas A&M University

9 days ago

20 years after Hurricane Katrina, 3 lessons for emergency management the government needs to hear -- Eric Kevin Stern, University at Albany, State University of New York

2 days ago

Monsoon flooding has killed hundreds in Pakistan – climate change is pushing the rainy season from blessing to looming catastrophe -- Pintu Kumar Mahla, University of Arizona

2 days ago

Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally – here's why -- Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Boise State University

3 days ago

Colorado's subalpine wetlands may be producing a toxic form of mercury – that's a concern for downstream water supplies -- Eve-Lyn Hinckley, University of Colorado Boulder

7 days ago

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much -- Peyton McCauley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

8 days ago

Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought -- Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin

13 days ago

Grand Canyon's Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to water systems -- Faith Kearns, Arizona State University

10 days ago

Where America's CO - 2 - emissions come from – what you need to know, in charts - Kenneth J. Davis, Penn State

15 days ago

Industrial pollution once ravaged the Adirondacks − decades of history captured in lake mud track their slow recovery -- Sky Hooler, University at Albany, State University of New York and Aubrey Hillman, University at Albany, State University of New York

17 days ago

My research team used 18 years of sea wave records to learn how destructive 'rogue waves' form – here's what we found -- Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology

8 days ago

Inside the search for sustainable aviation fuels, which are on the federal chopping block -- Li Qiao, Purdue University

16 days ago

Survivors' voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action -- Masako Toki, Middlebury

21 days ago

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Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California – a new study shows how climate change is driving the expansion -- Gavin D. Madakumbura, University of California, Los Angeles and Alex Hall, University of California, Los Angeles

22 days ago

Inside an urban heat island, one street can be much hotter than its neighbor – new tech makes it easier to target cooling projects -- Dan O'Brien, Northeastern University

17 days ago

History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function -- Susan L. Cutter, University of South Carolina

22 days ago

How weather changes cause migraines – a neurologist explains the triggers and what you can do to ease the pain -- Danielle Wilhour, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

1 month ago

FEMA's flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks, leaving homeowners unprepared -- Jeremy Porter, City University of New York

1 month ago

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4 months ago

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights -- Sarah Porter, Arizona State University

19 days ago

Cultivating for color: The hidden trade-offs between garden aesthetics and pollinator preferences -- Claire Therese Hemingway, University of Tennessee

9 days ago

We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas – satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones -- Jennifer Raynor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1 month ago

The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it's harming native fungi -- Aishwarya Veerabahu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1 month ago

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn't straws or grocery bags – it's your tires -- Boluwatife S. Olubusoye, University of Mississippi and James V Cizdziel, University of Mississippi

1 month ago

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3 months ago

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, Davis

22 days ago

Great Lakes offshore wind could power the region and beyond -- Cora Sutherland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

29 days ago

How wind and solar power helps keep America's farms alive -- Paul Mwebaze, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

30 days ago

'Big Beautiful Bill' will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy -- Daniel Cohan, Rice University

1 month ago

California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power -- Jacob Stid, Michigan State University; Annick Anctil, Michigan State University, and Anthony Kendall, Michigan State University

1 month ago

Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains -- Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University

1 month ago

How the 'Big Beautiful Bill' positions US energy to be more costly for consumers and the climate -- Daniel Cohan, Rice University

2 months ago

Energy Star, on the Trump administration's target list, has a long history of helping consumers' wallets and the planet -- Magali A. Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles

2 months ago

Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis -- Skip York, Rice University

2 months ago

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4 months ago

4 laws that could stymie the Trump EPA's plan to rescind the endangerment finding, central to US climate policies -- H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University

14 days ago

How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate -- Dana Zartner, University of San Francisco

1 month ago

What Trump's budget proposal says about his environmental values -- Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University

1 month ago

How Trump's 'gold standard' politicizes federal science -- H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University

2 months ago

How redefining just one word could strip the Endangered Species Act's ability to protect vital habitat -- Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Karrigan Börk, University of California, Davis

3 months ago

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3 months ago

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? -- Lauren Gifford, Colorado State University and Daimeon Shanks-Dumont, University of California, Berkeley

27 days ago

When big sports events expand, like FIFA's 2026 World Cup matches across North America, their climate footprint expands too -- Brian P. McCullough, University of Michigan

1 month ago

US government may be abandoning the global climate fight, but new leaders are filling the void – including China -- Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

27 days ago

How to find climate data and reports the Trump administration has removed -- Eric Nost, University of Guelph and Alejandro Paz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

1 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 Sciences

7 months ago

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3 months ago

Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization -- Michael Childers, Colorado State University

24 days ago

National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources -- Sarah Diaz, Coastal Carolina University and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University

24 days ago

Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity -- Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University and Michael Childers, Colorado State University

3 months ago

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools -- Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, and Jordan Brasher, Macalester College

1 month ago

National monuments have grown and shrunk under US presidents for over a century thanks to one law – the Antiquities Act -- Monica Hubbard, Boise State University and Erika Allen Wolters, Oregon State University

1 month ago

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1 month ago

Are people at the South Pole upside down? -- Abigail Bishop, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1 month ago

At Antarctica's midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent's long history of dark behavior -- Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University

2 months ago

What's at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska -- Mariah Meek, Michigan State University

1 month ago

US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

1 month ago

As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millions -- Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University and Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder

1 month ago

Critical minerals don't belong in landfills – microwave tech offers a cleaner way to reclaim them from e-waste -- Terence Musho, West Virginia University

2 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 Technology

3 months ago

US, Ukraine sign 'economic partnership' centered on Ukraine's wealth of critical minerals – but extracting them isn't so simple -- Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington

3 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 Hawaii

4 months ago

Greenland's rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract -- Paul Bierman, University of Vermont

6 months ago

Read more about critical minerals

2 months ago

A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading – and the lone star tick isn't the only alpha-gal carrier to worry about -- Lee Rafuse Haines, University of Notre Dame

23 days ago

Removing PFAS from public water systems will cost billions and take time – here are ways you can filter out harmful 'forever chemicals' at home -- Kyle Doudrick, University of Notre Dame

2 months ago

The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80 years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Stephen Herzog, Middlebury

23 days ago

A flesh-eating fly is spreading north to the US. It could devastate livestock farming if not controlled -- Hannah Rose Vineer, University of Liverpool and Livio Martins Costa Junior

30 days ago

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4 months ago

Agriculture secretary oversees food production, rural life, and nutrition programs that help millions afford healthy diets -- Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University

7 months ago

From watts to warheads: Secretary of energy oversees big science research and the US nuclear arsenal -- Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology and Margaret E. Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology

7 months ago

How the EPA administrator protects public health, air, water and the environment -- Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University

7 months ago

Interior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development -- Emily Wakild, Boise State University

7 months ago