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Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U.S. may soon need to do the same.
Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.
Utah laws cap wildfire damages and let utilities pass the cost onto customers. Utility lobbyists are pushing the model in other states.
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases.
Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.
The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.
Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.
To make crops resilient to climate change, scientists are exposing seeds to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and low gravity.