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Should New York City Burn Its Parks? This Scientist Thi...

An unusual outbreak of wildfires in city parks gave scientists a chance to study...

Epstein Is Shaking the Climate World, Too

A major funder of the Earthshot Prize has been linked to the convicted sex offen...

Bird Losses Are Accelerating, New Study Finds

Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerati...

Trump’s Pick to Manage Public Lands Pledges No Mass Sel...

Steve Pearce, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, h...

Bird Flu Strikes California Elephant Seals for the Firs...

Thirty seals, primarily weaned pups, have died since late last week, scientists ...

Trump Says Tech Firms Should Pay More for Electricity

The president said he had negotiated a deal with tech giants to cover the energy...

Judge Axes Exxon’s Defamation Suit Against Environmenta...

But the case against the California attorney general, prompted by his lawsuit ov...

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere

We talk to the author of a new book about why the problem is so hard to solve.

Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?

There’s mounting evidence that extreme weather is making some everyday stuff mor...

Norway’s Century-Long Watch on the Northern Lights

The nation’s northern region has led the scientific quest to understand the auro...

What the Snowstorm Looked Like Across the Northeast

Record-breaking amounts of snow fell in many parts of the region, blanketing the...

Thousands of Flights Are Canceled as Storm Slams Northe...

Airlines suspended operations at some major airports and expect to restart some ...

Supreme Court to Weigh Oil-Industry Effort to End a Maj...

The case could have significant bearing on a range of other lawsuits brought aga...

More Than Half a Million Customers Have Lost Power on E...

The outages were mostly caused by problems with local power lines, and coastal M...

The Evolution of Eyes Began With One

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New rese...

Cities May Be ‘Evolutionary Training Grounds’ For Spott...

Living in urban China may have given the insects the traits they needed to thriv...