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U.S. to Stop Buying Russian Uranium, Cutting Cash to Moscow

President Biden signed a bill into law on Monday night banning the import of uranium enriched in Russia. Russia controls nearly half the...

Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds

The summer of 2023 was exceptionally hot. Scientists have already established that it was the warmest Northern Hemisphere summer since around 1850, when...

4 Takeaways From Our Homeowners Insurance Investigation

As climate change gets worse, the immediate effects are becoming painfully obvious: More frequent and severe storms, wildfires, hurricanes and other types of...

Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth

Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, began his career searching for gravitational waves in the universe.“I started feeling a...

How an Obscure Agency Became a Linchpin for Climate Policy

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may be the most important climate agency you’re never heard of.Responsible for overseeing interstate transmission of gas, oil...

New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could Boost Wind and Solar Power

Federal regulators on Monday approved sweeping changes to how America’s electric grids are planned and funded, in a move that supporters hope could...

Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials

Officials in Alameda, Calif., have told scientists to stop testing a device that might one day be used to artificially cool the planet...

‘Failure to Thrive,’ or a Failure to Investigate?

Geriatrics is a field of sleuthing. To solve medical enigmas, doctors must become detectives, teasing out the effects of overlapping causes that include...

Where to See the Northern Lights on Sunday Night

The spectacular aurora borealis, the nighttime light display triggered by solar flares that has been so unusually prevalent since Friday, could be visible...

How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change

New data projects are linking social issues with global warming. Here’s what that means for these New York communities.May 12, 2024Some of the...

How 5 N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Are Struggling With Climate Change

New data projects are linking social issues with global warming. Here’s what that means for these New York communities.May 12, 2024Some of the...

Northern Lights Set to Return During Extreme Solar Storm’s 2nd Night

Night skies in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere are expected to bloom again on Saturday night with the vivid colors of the...

A New Tree of Flowering Plants? For Spring? Groundbreaking.

Almost every plant we eat has a flower, and flowering plants populate every corner of the planet. But many questions remain about how...

Is It Time to Stop Wasting Waste?

This article is part of our Design special section about water as a source of creativity.In the science fiction epic “Dune” (books and...

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