Before you fire up for barbecue season, make sure to consider the environmental impact of your meal.
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Everyone loves a barbecue – here’s how to enjoy it while being mindful of our planet.
Insurers are facing rising costs from effects of climate change.
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A ‘greenhushing’ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest.
NEPA requires federal agencies to analyze environmental impacts of projects like interstate highway construction.
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Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy.
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Our annual reports will update the world on the climate’s vital signs.
The predatory beetle Eurylychnus blagravei.
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When the rainforests burned, the leaf litter did too – and with it, billions of invertebrates vital to healthy ecosystems.
Workers decommission an oil rig in the North Sea.
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Labour would still honour existing licenses to drill for fossil fuels.
Wildfires can destroy hundreds of homes within hours.
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It’s not a question of if insurance will become unavailable or unaffordable in areas at high risk of wildfires, hurricanes and other damage – it’s a question of when. A disaster risk expert explains.
The Peach Drop celebration marks the new year in Atlanta on Jan. 1, 2023.
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A 90% crop loss in the Peach State may sound like a disaster, but Georgia isn’t actually the Big Apple of peach production that it claims to be.
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The scale of climate threat is beyond the tools we have to manage the Great Barrier Reef. New measures and sustained effort are needed.
An internally displaced person prepares a meal for her family inside an IDP camp in Benue State in northcentral Nigeria in January 2022.
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Two formidable forces have converged to push Nigeria’s food security to the brink: climate change, with its unpredictable weather patterns, and terrorism.
Ice in the Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska and Siberia.
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A short history of predicting an ice-free Arctic – and why you should listen to this one.
Cane toads: very large, very invasive and very poisonous.
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Behavior-based interventions could boost conservation efforts, but raise their own set of tricky ethical issues.
Fish in a kelp forest off San Benito Island, Mexico.
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Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, home to one million Rohingya refugees, is prone to flooding.
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Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
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Renters with nowhere to go. Home owners forced into mortgage stress. If our homes are damaged by floods or fires, it damages our health for years afterwards
Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root
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New research about underground fungal filaments suggests these networks store a vast amount of carbon. All the more reason to preserve them.
Are dogs as polluting as private jets?
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The environmental pawprint of pets is huge – and it’s mostly down to what we feed them.
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We want good news on climate change. But whales storing enough carbon needs more evidence.
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Publicly available data on social media opens a new avenue for studying the environment with “incidental citizen science”.
Can international courts help address the costs and causes of climate change?
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Governments and activist groups are bringing environmental issues to international courts. They argue that the impact of climate change and environmental issues affect human rights.