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![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
Antarctica is in extreme peril
"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.
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Inside a Georgia beach’s high-tech fight against erosion
Armed with drones and lasers, scientists are creating detailed 3D maps of Tybee Island’s shifting shoreline.
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![A large open-pit mine with terraced layers with several dump trucks and an excavator]()
![A large open-pit mine with terraced layers with several dump trucks and an excavator]()
US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals
There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles.
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![a backlit silhouette of Donald Trump who is facing away from the viewer]()
The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet
The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
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Tracking sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive
This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.
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![The main recharge Dyke for the Coachella Valley on August 10, 2009, in Coachella Valley, California. This dyke serves to maintain the Aquifer upon which Coachella depends, adding water to it protects the water source and protects the surrounding infrastructure from possible subsidence.]()
![The main recharge Dyke for the Coachella Valley on August 10, 2009, in Coachella Valley, California. This dyke serves to maintain the Aquifer upon which Coachella depends, adding water to it protects the water source and protects the surrounding infrastructure from possible subsidence.]()
Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
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![A lone human figure walks on melting ice in the Arctic]()
![A lone human figure walks on melting ice in the Arctic]()
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The guerrilla campaign to save a Texas prairie from ‘silent extinction’
“This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle or throwing up white flags.”
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![digital collage of three people on a beach walking away from the camera with a setting sun and seaweed border]()
![digital collage of three people on a beach walking away from the camera with a setting sun and seaweed border]()
Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
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There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet
Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent protection.
