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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