Rising Temperatures Are Turning Antarctica Into a ‘Hotspot’ for This Toxic Pollutant
When it comes to hotspots of toxic heavy metal pollution, Antarctica probably doesn’t come to mind. This remote…
Global Warming Has Kicked Into Overdrive, Scientists Warn
It’s been a particularly apocalyptic summer. Relentless, record-shattering heatwaves, untamable wildfires, and deadly floods are just some of…
What Has Scientists ‘Shaking in Their Boots’ on Wildfires
It seems as if the world is afire this summer. But even as wildfires in Europe and…
What the Cyclospora Outbreak Reveals
The United States is going through the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak on record. Thousands of people, mostly in the…
Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). Credit: Sarah…
Canada Wildfire Air Pollution and Heat Wave Combo Pose Heightened Health Risks
Soaring temperatures are expected to collide with wildfire smoke across parts of the United States this week, a…
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a…
Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought
Ecologists and climate researchers have sometimes called it “natural geoengineering.” The idea is elegant in its simplicity: A forest…
Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline
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E.P.A. Moves to Loosen Limits on Pollution From Trucks
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed to loosen limits on smog-causing pollution from a variety of heavy-duty…
European heatwave’s unlikely accomplice: an ocean ‘cold blob’
The heatwave battering Europe may have an unlikely partner-in-crime: a patch of cold ocean water south of Iceland…
Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands
The Trump administration on Monday moved to relax environmental rules governing the extraction of oil, gas and coal…