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Hawaii Settles With Young Plaintiffs in Climate Case

The government of Hawaii on Thursday settled a lawsuit with a group of young people who had sued the state’s Department of Transportation...

Hawaii Settles With Young Plaintiffs in Climate Case

The government of Hawaii on Thursday settled a lawsuit with a group of young people who had sued the state’s Department of Transportation...

A Ride in a Chemical-Sniffing Van Shows How Heat Amps Up Pollution

Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing...

‘Tiny Crime Fighters With Wings’: Bees Go to Work on a Virginia ‘Body Farm’

Deep in the woods in Northern Virginia last month, two human bodies were carried to a remote spot among the trees and left...

Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions

Poll workers. Pilgrims. Tourists on a hike.All have died in blistering heat in recent weeks around the world, a harrowing reminder of the...

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye

A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat as a pancake, its head permanently tilted to one side,...

Amazon Says It Will Stop Using Puffy Plastic Shipping Pillows

They’re a familiar sight in Amazon packages: The plastic air pillows designed to keep products safe in transit, but that also end up...

TV Weather Gets Political

For the longest time, chatting about the weather was the apotheosis of small talk.Awkward pause in the conversation? Stumped about what to say...

After a Weather Disaster, a Surprise: Some Ornery Monkeys Got Nicer

Hurricane Maria caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean, not only for people but also for wildlife. Five years after the storm, some of...

New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect

What’s driving ominous declines in insects?While a growing body of research shows decreases in many insect populations, it has been hard for scientists...

George Woodwell, Scientist Who Helped Shape Environmental Policy, Dies at 95

George M. Woodwell, the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and a renowned ecologist whose keen research and masterful understanding...

Leaping Leeches! Watch These Bloodsuckers Jump.

Land-dwelling leeches can seem like placid creatures. But when they’re on the hunt for blood, look out.An appetite for blood may have provoked...

Leaping Leeches! Watch These Bloodsuckers Jump.

Land-dwelling leeches can seem like placid creatures. But when they’re on the hunt for blood, look out.An appetite for blood may have provoked...

Lokiceratops, a Horned Dinosaur, May Be a New Species

In the Late Cretaceous period, a remarkable flowering of horned dinosaurs occurred along the coastal floodplains of western North America. Two different families...

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