Climate change has a clear link to rising foodborne illnesses. Blackouts during heat waves and wildfires are a growing part…
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to…
Feeding insects instead of grain to animals is an inexpensive, sustainable way to increase the world food supply. An animal…
The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still…
Sometimes wind and solar power produce more electricity than the local grid can handle. Better energy storage and transmission…
Puerto Rico’s tourism industry is booming as nations lift COVID-19 travel restrictions, but development is displacing…
Extreme heat waves are putting lives in danger, with some of the hottest urban neighborhoods 10 degrees hotter or more than…
This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.
Other presidents used the Defense Production Act to boost fossil fuel supplies. Biden is using it to replace them with clean…
As nations pledge to preserve swaths of ocean within their territorial waters, a marine scientist explains why some marine…
Thwaites Glacier’s ice shelf appears to be splintering, and scientists fear it could give way in the next few years. A…
The recent goring of a tourist who approached within 10 feet of a bison in Yellowstone National Park is a reminder that…
With the world losing species at an alarming rate, a conservation biologist explains how ideas about protecting biodiversity…