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THE CONVERSATION - USA - Environment

Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out

Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warni...

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How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate

How sewage treatment plants could handle food wast...

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In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misco...

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Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive

Bird losses are accelerating across North America,...

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Why shadow tankers are the only ships still moving through the Strait of Hormuz

Why shadow tankers are the only ships still moving...

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Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk

Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of crit...

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Alaska’s glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods

Alaska’s glacial lakes are expanding, increasing t...

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US is less prone to oil price shocks than in past decades

US is less prone to oil price shocks than in past ...

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Why do mountaintops stay snowy, even though they’re closer to the Sun?

Why do mountaintops stay snowy, even though they’r...

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Abandoned Pennsylvania mines and waste-heat recycling could make the state’s massive new data centers far more sustainable

Abandoned Pennsylvania mines and waste-heat recycl...

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Silicone wristbands can help scientists track people’s exposure to pollutants like ‘forever chemicals’

Silicone wristbands can help scientists track peop...

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Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads

Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks...

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Venezuela’s fragile forests face rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads

Venezuela’s fragile forests face rising risks as U...

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Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become mili...

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2025 was hotter than it should have been – 5 influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what’s ahead

2025 was hotter than it should have been – 5 influ...

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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help...

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How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source

How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, co...

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The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science

The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains...

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How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully ...

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understandin...

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Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure

Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Na...

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Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collap...

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How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper

How deregulation made electricity more expensive, ...

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Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-...

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In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order

In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resourc...

3 weeks ago 59

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of...

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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endange...

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Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses

Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public ...

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Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-f...

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Green or not, US energy future depends on Native nations

Green or not, US energy future depends on Native n...

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Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones

Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used p...

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Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

Held captive in their own country during World War...

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Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers bracing for another harsh summer

Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves...

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New technologies are stepping up the global fight against wildlife trafficking

New technologies are stepping up the global fight ...

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What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier – and it’s everywhere

What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Mach...

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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm

Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can incre...

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Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games

Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ futu...

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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand

Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold w...

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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?

Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA...

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Over 100 deaths linked to January storms – here’s how to stay safe when cold, snowy weather moves in

Over 100 deaths linked to January storms – here’s ...

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Over 100 deaths linked to January storm: Here’s how to stay safe as more cold, stormy weather moves in

Over 100 deaths linked to January storm: Here’s ho...

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Over 100 deaths linked to January storm, but winter storms don’t have to be deadly – here’s how to prepare to stay safe

Over 100 deaths linked to January storm, but winte...

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Winter storms don’t have to be deadly – here’s how to stay safe before, during and after one hits

Winter storms don’t have to be deadly – here’s how...

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Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way

Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity p...

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EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health

EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands ...

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America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry

America is falling behind in the global EV race – ...

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PFAS are turning up in the Great Lakes, putting fish and water supplies at risk – here’s how they get there

PFAS are turning up in the Great Lakes, putting fi...

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Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination

Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for ...

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Colorado ski resorts got some welcome snowfall from Winter Storm Fern, but not enough to turn a dry and warm winter around

Colorado ski resorts got some welcome snowfall fro...

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Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water – 3 tips to deice responsibly

Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local ...

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