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Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’

If you saw a northern marsupial mole, you might be surprised. Known to the First Nations peoples in the Western Desert of Australia...

Corn to Power Airplanes? Biden Administration Sets a High Bar.

In a move aimed at lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of air travel, the Biden administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for how...

Tesla Fires Many on Charger Team, Raising Doubts About Expansion

Elon Musk has gutted the part of Tesla responsible for building electric vehicle charging stations, sowing uncertainty about the future of the largest...

How to save a pristine valley

As the helicopter lifted off and disappeared into the clouds, the roar of the whirring blades fell away and all that was left...

Werner Spitz, Forensic Expert in High-Profile Murders, Dies at 97

Dr. Werner Spitz, a pathologist whose accounts of the traumatic last moments in some of the most sensational American deaths of the past...

Water Heaters Use Lots of Energy. The D.O.E. Wants to Change That.

The Biden administration on Tuesday adopted stricter energy-efficiency standards for residential water heaters, the most consequential move in a flurry of changes designed...

How Locals Saved ‘the Yosemite of South America’

In central Chile, not far from where the Andes Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, a vast swath of pristine wilderness is changing hands...

U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing

New details of the Biden administration’s signature conservation effort, made public this month amid a burst of other environmental announcements, have alarmed some...

Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy

The Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for clean energy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh...

Edward Dwight Aims for Orbit at Last

Edward Dwight is going to space, finally.In the coming weeks, as conditions allow, Mr. Dwight is expected to be part of a six-person...

Honeybees Invaded My House, and No One Would Help

I considered buying a can of Raid, but I felt too guilty. I had a vague sense that honeybees needed saving, and some...

Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy

In the city of Duisburg in Germany’s industrial heartland is a vast steel complex that is one of Europe’s largest polluters. But alongside...

Environmental Prize Highlights Work to Keep Fossil Fuels at Bay

New coal mines continue to open each year, and oil and gas companies are still exploring new parts of the world. But increasingly,...

Philips Settles CPAP Breathing Device Lawsuits for $1.1 Billion

Philips Respironics has reached a $1.1 billion settlement over claims that people who used their CPAP and other breathing devices were harmed by...

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