Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around ...
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Temperatures kept rising in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Finally, it was just too hot to keep students in classrooms without air co...
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The world is now 1.1 degrees Celsius — 2 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer on average than it was at the dawn of the Industrial Re...
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The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during...
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NEW ORLEANS — On an overcast day in April, on the edge of Chalmette Battlefield, a few miles outside the city, Liz Marchio exami...
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Every year, more than a billion people sweat their way through India and Pakistan's dreaded heatwaves, which usually begin in lat...
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More than half a million properties across Australia will effectively become uninsurable this decade due to climate change, a new ...
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Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according ...
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Human activities are damaging and degrading the lands of the Earth in an unsustainable fashion according to a new UN report....
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Beneath some of the world’s busiest fisheries, radioactive submarines from the Soviet era lie disintegrating on the seafloor. De...
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Single-use masks have been the emblems of the pandemic era. Since the very first lockdowns of 2020, these plastic-based coverings ...
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In 2021, Stanford pediatrician and arbovirologist Desiree LaBeaud and her colleagues launched the nonprofit organization HERI-Keny...
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