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In one of the most important state environmental decisions this year, California air regulators adopted new rules designed to reduce methane leaks and better respond to disastrous underground fires at landfills statewide.This post was originally […]

A breach, a blockade, and a blaze: tumultuous UN climate talks head into their final day Friday in the Brazilian Amazon, with countries still sharply split over fossil fuels.This post was originally published on this […]

One of North America’s longest rivers, the Rio Grande—or Rio Bravo as it’s called in Mexico—has a history as deep as it is long. Indigenous people have tapped it for countless generations, and it was […]

Across Europe, scientists and citizens are uncovering a hidden legacy of contamination beneath their feet. From Denmark’s first PFAS crisis to a new generation of soil-mapping initiatives, a continent is learning to see—and stop—the pollution […]

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, we were both mothers trying to stay sane. Our chats often revolved around diapers, feeding, sleep deprivation and motherhood chaos. Between laughter and exhaustion, cloth diapers kept coming up in […]

Imagine trying to predict wind patterns as air flows across a landscape. It’s a straightforward task over a flat plain—but becomes more complex when the terrain shifts to jagged mountain ranges. Here, wind does not […]

A recent study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation shows how high-resolution maps of ground-level ammonia plumes can be generated with airborne sensors, highlighting a […]

An environmental chemistry laboratory at Duke University has solved a longstanding mystery of the origin of high levels of PFAS—so-called “forever chemicals”—contaminating water sources in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.This post was originally published […]

The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a […]

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world’s oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part of […]