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PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases.
Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.
The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.
To make crops resilient to climate change, scientists are exposing seeds to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and low gravity.
“It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry.”
Though tech companies are secretive about their water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of the state’s supply.
As Finland reckons with its historic mistreatment of the Indigenous Sámi people, climate change complicates the path forward.
The American Lung Association report comes amid the EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections.
A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a "very violent release" of deep, pent-up heat.