Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation…
Geologists discovered the evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of…
It’s all about perspective: The higher you go, the more you can see the curve.
A deep dive into 866 public companies and 1,413 carbon projects reveals some twists in who relies on cheap offsets and who…
In interviews with residents and builders after disasters from Hawaii to Colorado to Puerto Rico, an engineer and policy…
While he hasn’t released an official plan, Trump’s playbook the last time he was in office and his frequent complaints…
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world…
The future of these job-generating gigafactories, many of them in Republican states, could be at risk if the next president…
Terror management theory explores the lengths our minds will go to to deny existential threats. Psychologists explain what…
FEMA’s recovery work after Helene and Milton has been hampered by misinformation. Here’s what the agency actually does…
Both gasoline and diesel fuel are refined from crude oil, but they are good for different things and can’t be used interchangeably.
Ultrafine particles are approximately one-thousandth the width of a human hair. But because of their tiny size, they are…
The islands’ vulnerability has roots deep in the exploitative systems forced on them by colonialism, from slave-based…
New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.
Be very afraid – if you’re an insect.
Many sea creatures lead complex, social lives in the wild and are likely to suffer in farmed conditions. But they aren’t…
8 million metric tons of plastic wind up in Earth’s oceans annually, where marine animals are exposed to this pollution…
Some cities are building huge gates and barriers to counter the flood risk from estuary urbanization. But putting nature…
Disasters such as hurricanes Helene and Milton often hit low-income and other disadvantaged groups hardest. 2 policy experts…