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If Electric Vehicles Don’t Cut CO₂ Fast Enough, These Fuels Might Help

John Fialka and E&E News

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How Culturally Significant Mammals Tell the Story of Social Ascension for Black Americans

Nyeema C. Harris | Opinion

Pollution

Racism Drives Environmental Inequality—But Most Americans Don’t Realize

Brittney J. Miller and Nature magazine

What Did COVID Teach Us about Preparing for a Plant Pandemic?

The question is not whether we'll experience such an event; it’s whether we'll be ready when it strikes

Jonathan Margolis | Opinion

Fossil Fuels

If Electric Vehicles Don’t Cut CO₂ Fast Enough, These Fuels Might Help

John Fialka and E&E News

Ecology

How Culturally Significant Mammals Tell the Story of Social Ascension for Black Americans

Nyeema C. Harris | Opinion

Pollution

Racism Drives Environmental Inequality—But Most Americans Don’t Realize

Brittney J. Miller and Nature magazine

Ecology

Redwoods Grow Weird Leaves to Suck Water from Air

Ula Chrobak

Pollution

Ocean Oil Slick Map Reveals Enough Greasy Patches to Cover France—Twice

Sasha Warren

Climate Change

How the U.S. Is Preparing for Europe’s Carbon Tariffs

Sara Schonhardt and E&E News

Climate Change

Climate Destroyers Go to Jail, Martian Travel Guide, Bee Interiority, and More

Amy Brady

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Nearly 100,000 People Received Disaster Aid under a New Equity Policy

Thomas Frank and E&E News

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Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn

Common chemicals sprayed on many crops each year are cloaked in bureaucratic uncertainties

Renewable Energy

Engineers Look to River and Ocean Currents for Clean Energy

The Department of Energy is helping to fund 11 projects that are designed to harness the power of moving water

John Fialka and E&E News

If Electric Vehicles Don’t Cut CO₂ Fast Enough, These Fuels Might Help

Department of Energy researchers say gasoline might have to be substituted with biofuels to ensure that climate targets are achieved

John Fialka and E&E News

We Need to Improve Indoor Air Quality: Here’s How and Why

Upgrading buildings’ ventilation, filtration and other factors would not only decrease COVID transmission but also improve health and cognitive performance in general

Racism Drives Environmental Inequality—But Most Americans Don’t Realize

Survey finds that most people think poverty is why pollution disproportionately affects Black people, despite evidence that racism is the major cause

Brittney J. Miller and Nature magazine

California Faces Summer Blackouts from Climate Extremes

Energy planners are working to increase the grid’s reliability to keep the power on during droughts, wildfires and heat waves

Anne C. Mulkern and E&E News

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How Plastic Became a Plague

How Plastic Became a Plague

Plastic pollution, including tiny bits known as microplastic, permeate the environment, posing a threat to human and planetary health

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Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic

In March 2020 Ruth DeFries finished a manuscript more than five years in the making. It turned out to be both prescient and prophetic. In this document, the Columbia University professor argued that global crises are now inevitable because of the complexity and interconnectedness of our modern civilization...

April 8, 2021

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Natural Disasters

Misconceptions about Wildfires Are Fueling the Problem

January 29, 2021

Environment

A Map 15 Years in the Making Illuminates a 'Grand Canyon' off California's Coast

August 18, 2020

Biology

Drones Capture Close Encounters between Great White Sharks and Beachgoers

July 8, 2020

Climate

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: A New Climate-Related Threat from Above

January 15, 2020

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If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California?

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If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California?

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