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Animals No one can predict exactly where birds go, but this mathematical model gets close By Charlotte Hu
Climate Change China’s decision to reduce coal-powered heating may have saved 23,000 lives By Laura Baisas
Climate Change Biden’s recent climate decisions will close mines, protect salmon, and may permit drilling in Alaska By Laura Baisas
Climate Change The best way to save forests? Legally recognize Indigenous lands. By Joseph Lee / Grist
Climate Change Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines By Ben Guarino
Climate Change New factory retrofit could reduce a steel plant’s carbon emissions by 90 percent By Andrew Paul
Conservation Biden’s recent climate decisions will close mines, protect salmon, and may permit drilling in Alaska By Laura Baisas
Conservation When wolves hunt otters on this Alaskan island, deer suffer By Marina Wang / Hakai Magazine
Conservation A chunk of ice twice the size of New York City broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf By Laura Baisas
Conservation When wind turbines kill bats and birds, these scientists want the carcasses By Emma Foehringer Merchant / Undark
Conservation Plastic, pollution, and prescription drugs are making fish act erratically By Doug Johnson/Undark
Energy When wind turbines kill bats and birds, these scientists want the carcasses By Emma Foehringer Merchant / Undark
Energy EPA updates emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles for the first time in 20 years By Carla Delgado
Sustainability China’s decision to reduce coal-powered heating may have saved 23,000 lives By Laura Baisas
Sustainability Biden’s recent climate decisions will close mines, protect salmon, and may permit drilling in Alaska By Laura Baisas
Sustainability The best way to save forests? Legally recognize Indigenous lands. By Joseph Lee / Grist
Sustainability Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines By Ben Guarino
John Deere finally agrees to let farmers fix their own equipment, but there’s a catch By Andrew Paul / Jan 10, 2023
The EPA wants more ‘renewable’ fuel. But what does that actually mean? By John McCracken / Grist / Jan 6, 2023
Microgravity tomatoes, yogurt bacteria, and plastic eating microbes are headed to the ISS By Andrew Paul / Nov 21, 2022
How kelp farming is helping revive the economy and ecology of a Long Island bay By Iris M. Crawford / Nexus Media / Nov 18, 2022
Dams show promise for sustainable food systems, but we should tread lightly By Laura Baisas / Nov 14, 2022
To save water, Arizona farmers are growing guayule for sustainable tires By Zayna Syed / Nov 13, 2022
Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz By Lauren J. Young / Nov 9, 2022
Some climate activists aren’t suing over the future—they are taking aim at the present By Isabella Kaminski / Hakai Magazine / Nov 5, 2022
Italian chefs are cooking up a solution to booming jellyfish populations By Agostino Petroni / Hakai Magazine / Oct 25, 2022