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Places Where You Can Walk on Water

Giving a Dam. How Colorado Is Making Beavers Welcome Across the State

Canada’s Trump Card in the Trade War with the U.S.

Is There a “Pink Corridor” in Our Ocean’s Future?

"Carbon Majors" Are Wringing Out the West to Dry

Is It Finally Time for Glen Canyon Dam to Go?

A "Dangerous, Chilling Effect" on Coastal States?

Greenland Warns a Trump-Linked Oil Company to Stop

Are U.S. Water Systems Being Targeted by Iran?

The Oceans Are Running Out of Oxygen

Was Water a Factor in the Diarrhea Outbreak?

The Plan to Move Water from the Desert to Cities

How Space Weather Can Make It Rain—or Not

Got Milk? It Might Have Less Protein and Fat

How Water Became the Next Front in the Battle over Abortion

The "Flamingo Revolution”

A Data Center Turns Water Brown

Colorado Just Legalized “Balcony Solar.” What Is It and Will Your State Plug in Too?

Hungarians Are Hungry for Climate Action

How the “God Squad” Could Cause Whales to Go Extinct

These Courts Could Challenge Climate Change

"Forever Water"—What Happens in L.A., Stays in L.A.

You Can’t Have ICE Without Water

The Endangered “Endangerment Finding”

A “Widespread Collapse of American Agriculture”

The U.S. Government Is Being Sued…for Murder

What Trump May Want From Greenland Beyond Minerals

How Environmental Damage Fueled Iran’s Protests

Fighting Fire with Sound—No Water Required

Some in the West Pay High Prices for Water, While Others Get It for Free

A Mushrooming Industry That Serves the Dead

Data Centers…in the Sky?

Climate Change Is Making Food Less Nutritious

Planes Could Soon Run on Garbage

A Major World City Could Run Out of Water

How “Liquid Air” Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Suppose They Gave a Coal Auction and Nobody Came

A New Silk Road Through the Arctic

Your Dog’s Carbon “Paw Print”

A High Five for the High Seas

Why Sharks Could Lose Their Fearsome Bite

How “Def Con Franklin” Is Defending Water Utilities

How Tariffs Could Strain Water Supplies

How a Doorbell Camera Can Save Water

Watering Down Water Protections

Did National Weather Service Cuts Worsen the Disaster in Texas?

How Norway Achieved a Nearly 100 Percent Recycling Rate

Do Bans on Plastic Bags Work?

The Magic of Mixing Soda Cans, Seawater, and Coffee

The Oceans Are Getting Darker

Plants Get Sweeter When They "Hear" Bees

A Different Kind of Powerball

Trees Know an Eclipse Is Coming Before it Starts

Could Climate Change Make Rice Unhealthy?

Nations Agree to First-Ever Global Fee on Greenhouse Gases

Making Acid Rain Great Again?

Bursting a Weather Forecaster’s Balloon

Why Climate Change Means Fewer Satellites

No NOAA, No Safety?

Greenland’s Most Valuable Resource Isn’t Its Minerals

Weather Forecasting Could Become an Unsafe Free-for-All

How DeepSeek Could Deep-Six U.S. AI Companies

Why Leaving the Paris Agreement May Not Be a Bad Thing

How Trump Could Slow the L.A. Recovery

The Legacy of the First Green President

Drought Talks Dry Up

Car Paint That Packs a Charge

Giving AI the Side-Eye

A New Compound Has Been Identified in Tap Water

What Trump’s Nominees Portend for the Environment

Could China Now Become a Green Superpower?

Could This Group of Voters Decide the Election?

Your Toothbrush Is a Laboratory

Is It Fluoride's Last Ride?

The Military Defies an Order to Clean Up Groundwater

What's the Environmental Record of Governor Tim Walz?

What’s the Climate Record of Kamala Harris?

A Water War Over Who Gets What and When Is Now Managed with a Smartphone

A River Sued a City—and Won

In This State, the Kids Are All Right

Supreme Court Guts Protecting Air and Water

“Day Zero” Approaches in Mexico City

Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos?

Oil Giants May Have to Pay for Climate Damage

Sacking Sackett? Biden Moves to Protect Wetlands

"Fool’s Gold" May Turn Out to Be Golden

How Taking a Walk Can Clean Water

Cyberattacks Are Striking Water Systems

The European Union Moves to Criminalize Ecocide

The Lies of the Plastics Industry—Exposed

A Beverage That Slows Aging

Was This Year’s COP Half Full or Half Empty?

Phase Down? Or Phase Out?

The War in Israel Comes for U.S. Water Systems

Going Nuclear in a Small Way

Could This Discovery Be a Climate Game Changer?

Kicking the Salt Habit

Could a Houseplant Detect Toxins in Water?

Screwed. Why DIY Repairs Are So Difficult

Fireproofing Your Home with Fungi?

Why Some Trees Are Worsening Air Pollution

Drought Is Drawing Saltwater Upriver

Telling Plastic to Fork Off

The Push to Privatize Water

As Climate Disasters Increase, So Do Government Subsidies for Fossil Fuels

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

They Knew the Dangers—But Hid Them from the Public

The Supreme Court Hangs the Clean Water Act Out to Dry

When a Dustup Is a Good Thing

How Penguins Dump on Climate Change

A Grueling Sporting Event Is Doing Science

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon”

High Hopes for the High Seas

William Shakespeare…Eco Warrior?

The Last Straw for Plastics

How to Help Poor Countries Protect Nature

The True Reason for Attila the Hun’s Raids

Red to Grow, Blue to Flow

A Railroad Strike Could Derail Water Systems

One of the Winners in the Midterms? The Climate.

To Make This Battery Work, Just Add Water

One Solution to the Climate Crisis is a Pane in the Glass

Can We Worm Our Way Out of Our Plastic Pollution Problem?

Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change

Turning Plastic into a Climate Solution

A Setback for Oil and Gas

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Sewer Water

The Dam Nobody Wants Just Won’t Go Away

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