Environment

More Stories in Environment

  1. Climate

    From electric cars to wildfires, how Trump may affect climate actions

    Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to address climate change and environmental issues may fare.

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  2. Climate

    Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 29 kph on average

    Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming seas. One even jumped two categories of intensity.

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  3. Oceans

    The world’s largest coral was discovered in the South Pacific

    The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer

    The new finding comes from an analysis of pesticide use and prostate cancer incidence in over 3,100 U.S. counties.

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  5. Environment

    Fire-prone neighborhoods on the fringes of nature are rapidly expanding

    The transition zone where unoccupied wildlands meet developed areas increased globally by about 35 percent from 2000 to 2020.

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  6. Animals

    This marine biologist discovered a unique blue whale population in Sri Lanka

    In addition to studying the world’s only nonmigratory blue whales, marine biologist Asha de Vos seeks to change her compatriots’ attitudes toward the ocean.

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  7. Environment

    An idea to save Mexico’s oyamel forests could help monarch butterflies too

    Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?

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  8. Science & Society

    There’s a new term for attempting to own the wind: ventography

    Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.

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  9. Earth

    What leads rivers to suddenly change course?

    An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and where their rerouted flows will go.

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