The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities
The city has long been a beacon of opportunity, where folks flock to make it big. But metropolises the world over ...
The world is getting too hot to feed itself
Two years ago today, an intense heat wave engulfed much of Brazil. For five days at the end of April 2024, tempera...
How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage
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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
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AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous land protection, UN experts warn
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The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.
The war launched by the United States and Israel on Iran has caused an unprecedented disruption in global energy m...
What’s driving the catastrophic wildfires in Georgia
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Indigenous health can’t be separated from environmental health, leaders tell UN
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Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery
A miner haunts the East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York. It’s not the spirit of an interred workman, but Andrena...
Know the facts about Vibrio, a bacteria found in coastal waters and raw shellfish
What is Vibrio?
Vibrio is a type of bacteria that has been around for hundreds of millions of years; researche...