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Three Things We Must Do to Tackle Climate Change

With world leaders meeting at the international climate change conference in Glasgow to negotiate urgent global action necessary to meet…

3 years ago

Spending Bill Marks Largest U.S. Climate Investment, ‘But the Job Is Not Done’

In 2010, former President Obama pulled the plug on a cap-and-trade proposal to push through other parts of his domestic…

3 years ago

Will America Act to Address the Climate Crisis?

I witnessed Hurricane Sandy up close and personal. In Morris County, N.J., we were without power for 10 days following…

3 years ago

How Climate Change Hurt this Year’s Apple Harvest

It’s been a tough season for U.S. apple growers. Climate change made it worse. From late-spring frosts in western Michigan…

3 years ago

Senate Debates Uncertain Future of U.S. Spaceflight

The risk of collisions in space, the fate of the United States in orbit after the space station retires and…

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Fossil Fuel Development to Exceed Global Climate Targets

Fossil fuel-producing nations are on track to blow by their Paris Agreement pledges by developing coal, oil and natural gas…

4 years ago

Meteorite Crashes into Woman’s Bed in Canada

A woman in Canada narrowly missed being struck by a meteorite that crashed through her roof and landed on her…

4 years ago

World Leaders Meet to Address Biodiversity Crisis, But U.S. Stays on Sidelines

World leaders moved forward this week with a global framework to stem the loss of biodiversity, but missing from the…

4 years ago

The NFL’s Racist ‘Race Norming’ Is an Afterlife of Slavery

Editor’s Note (10/12/21): This story from July on the use of “race norming” in the National Football League (NFL) is…

4 years ago

Poem: ‘Earth’s Accidents (Over Wadi Qumran)’

Science in meter and verse Credit: Jean-Pierre Bouchard Getty ImagesAdvertisement Edited by Dava Sobel The Dead Sea scrolls were mostly…

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