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Bizarre, Unexplained Rumblings in Earth’s Atmosphere Puzzle Scientists

Ben Turner and LiveScience

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The Willow Project Promises a Worse Future for Alaska. And For the Earth

Joshua Hunt | Opinion

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Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Global Warming Is Likely to Breach the 1.5 Degrees C Milestone within 5 Years

One of the next five years will almost certainly be the hottest on record, and there’s a two-in-three chance one year will cross the crucial 1.5 degrees C global warming threshold...

Andrew King and The Conversation US

Weather

Bizarre, Unexplained Rumblings in Earth’s Atmosphere Puzzle Scientists

Ben Turner and LiveScience

Fossil Fuels

The Willow Project Promises a Worse Future for Alaska. And For the Earth

Joshua Hunt | Opinion

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Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change

Kendra Pierre-Louis

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‘SuperLab’ Will Test U.S. Power Grid Against Climate Disasters

John Fialka and E&E News

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Hawaii Has Permafrost, and Scientists Are Racing to Study It before It’s Gone

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

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Rats Are Finally Gone from This Vulnerable Island

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

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We’re About to See a Rare and Record-Setting May Heat Wave

Andrea Thompson

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New EPA Rules Would Slash Power Plant Emissions

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We’re About to See a Rare and Record-Setting May Heat Wave

A potentially record-setting heat wave is headed for the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, a sign of the shift to hotter—and earlier—summers

Andrea Thompson

Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward

Tornado outbreaks are moving from Texas and Oklahoma toward Tennessee and Kentucky, where people may not be prepared

Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly and Daniel P. Huffman

Hawaii Has Permafrost, and Scientists Are Racing to Study It before It’s Gone

Permafrost can—incongruously—be found in Hawaii, but surveys show it has been shrinking over time, in part because of climate change

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better

A future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment

Stephanie Feldstein | Opinion

Rats Are Finally Gone from This Vulnerable Island

Efforts to eradicate invasive rats that have decimated native species on islands around the world are beginning to bear fruit

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

World’s Largest Logjam Stores 3 Million Tons of Carbon

Dead trees have accumulated in an Arctic basin for centuries, creating one of the largest “carbon pools” in the world

Daniel Cusick and E&E News

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These Mini Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction

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These Mini Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction

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