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Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain - Jessica Beaudette, Arizona State University

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Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations -- Philip Steenstra, University of Michigan; Rachel O'Brien, University of Michigan, and Stuart Batterman, University of Michigan

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Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including from used oil and gas wells -- Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota

3 days ago

Florida's 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore them -- Christopher F. Meindl, University of South Florida

9 days ago

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency's ability to keep pollution out of air and water -- Elizabeth Blum, Troy University and Chris Sellers, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)

11 days ago

How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood -- Steven Sullivan, Miami University

11 days ago

How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast's ecology and economy -- Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara

13 days ago

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that's a problem for aquatic life and people -- Li Li (李黎), Penn State

17 days ago

Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it's business more than politics -- David L Levy, UMass Boston and Rami Kaplan, Tel Aviv University

16 days ago

A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions -- Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan

19 days ago

Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature's symphony with some simple techniques -- Chris Lituma, West Virginia University

17 days ago

Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood -- Chunrong Jia, University of Memphis; Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, University of Memphis, and Namuun Batbaatar, University of Memphis

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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire -- Nina Fontana, University of California, Davis and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, University of California, Davis

27 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

1 month ago

Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale -- Jun Wang, University of Iowa

2 months 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

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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

2 months ago

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6 months ago

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work -- Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University; Mj Riches, Colorado State University, and Rose Rossell, Colorado State University

24 days ago

For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you're faster than your neighbor -- Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis

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The surprising recovery of once-rare birds -- Tom Langen, Clarkson University

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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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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Why do big oil companies invest in green energy? -- Michael Oxman, Georgia Institute of Technology

25 days ago

Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the road to clean electricity, too -- Jeremy J. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

1 month ago

AI's ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency -- Divya Mahajan, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns and campuses – but community input will be key -- Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

23 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

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

3 months 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

2 months ago

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

3 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

3 months ago

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Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won't solve America's wildfire problem -- Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Forrest Fleischman, University of Minnesota, and Tony Cheng, Colorado State University

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

4 months ago

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A walk across Alaska's Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data -- Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder

20 days ago

5 FORECASTS EARLY CLIMATE MODELS GOT RIGHT – THE EVIDENCE IS ALL AROUND YOU -- Nadir Jeevanjee, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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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

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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

8 months 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

2 months ago

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Hidden treasures of America's national parks are closer than you might think -- Jeffrey C. Hallo, Clemson University

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

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 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

3 months ago

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3 months 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

2 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Solving the world's microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed -- Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University

26 days ago

You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming in lakes – new maps show how risk from 'forever chemicals' varies -- Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Jiameng Zheng, Louisiana State University ; Wendong Zhang, Cornell University, and Xibo Wan, University of Connecticut

1 month 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

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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

2 months 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

4 months ago

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6 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

5 months 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

4 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

5 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

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

7 months ago

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