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A young Asian man heading to a clothes shelf in a store before taking a closer look at a t-shirt.

What your cheap clothes cost the planet

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey & Rebecca Egan McCarthy / Grist

What’s going on with spotted lanternflies?

By Lauren Leffer

Polymetallic nodules on the Blake Plateau in the Atlantic Ocean, captured by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in 2019.

Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.

By Gautama Mehta / Grist

Mars surface NASA Odyssey

What we should think about before terraforming alien worlds

By Erika Nesvold / MIT Press Reader

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters

By Janine Peralta/Hakai Magazine

Corn stalk leaf measuring robot parked in front of field

The corn leaf angle measuring robot is more useful than you think

All the fish we cannot see

All the fish we cannot see

By Moira Donovan / Hakai Magazine

Roses blooming in a garden.

Chemists finally unlock the secret to a rose’s iconic aroma

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

This fossilized ‘ancient animal’ might be a bunch of old seaweed

This fossilized ‘ancient animal’ might be a bunch of old seaweed

By Sara Kiley Watson

A moniker fairy lantern plant detonates, with its petals unfurling.

Scientists just rediscovered a rare, fungi-eating ‘fairy lantern’

By Laura Baisas

What happens when a tree dies?

What happens when a tree dies?

By Camille Stevens-Rumann/The Conversation

Hammerhead shark

A scientific mission to save the sharks

By Angela Posada-Swafford / Knowable Magazine

Yellow-green cyanobacteria bloom in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Events like these can cause mass fish dieoffs.

A fish-kill mystery in a remote Alaska village takes a toxic turn

By Saima Sidik/Hakai Magazine

Purple sea urchins clumped together in an urchin barren.

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels

A mangrove tree in Florida to represent blue carbon and the ocean's power to fight climate change

Blue carbon is a natural climate solution with big potential

Roofgarden in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Pumping carbon dioxide waste to rooftop gardens boosts crop yields

Scientists still are figuring out how to age the ancient footprints in White Sands National Park

Scientists still are figuring out how to age the ancient footprints in White Sands National Park

By Laura Baisas

Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it’s wetter

Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it’s wetter

Air Company and US Air Force's SAF test flight.

Sustainable jet fuel is taking off with commercial airlines

By Charlotte Hu

The International Space Station, seen from a Dragon Capsule in November 2021.

International Space Station

Need more air in space? Magnets could yank it out of water.

By Tatyana Woodall

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