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Plastic chemicals are inescapable — and they’re messing with our hormones
Researchers say the U.N.'s global plastics treaty must reduce production and protect public health.
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![A sheet of ice stretches out in front of a blue sky. There is equipment sticking into the ice, and parts of it are melting.]()
![A sheet of ice stretches out in front of a blue sky. There is equipment sticking into the ice, and parts of it are melting.]()
Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes
So-called rain-on-snow events accelerate ice loss and trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wild animals and the Indigenous peoples who depend on them.
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![Two whales swim in a blue ocean scene]()
Climate change and boat strikes are killing right whales. Stronger speed limits could save them.
Nearly a century after we almost hunted them to extinction, fewer than 360 right whales remain.
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![Man looks at refinery in distance]()
Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?
The question of whether humans created a new epoch has been stirring up drama for almost 25 years.
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![Photo of a Chevron gas station lit up at night in front of an orange, fiery sky]()
![Photo of a Chevron gas station lit up at night in front of an orange, fiery sky]()
Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial
A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public.
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![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
How to recycle the giant magnets inside wind turbines? These scientists have a few ideas.
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
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How air pollution delayed a surge in extreme rain
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
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Talking about climate change can be awkward. Just ask Tim Robinson.
Does cringe comedy have anything to teach climate scientists?
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Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl flight shows what’s wrong with carbon removal
A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry.
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![An aerial view of a massive bluish white chuck of snowy ice.]()
![An aerial view of a massive bluish white chuck of snowy ice.]()
How do you stop a glacier from melting? Put up an underwater curtain.
A 62-mile-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, scientists say.
