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What we know—and don’t know—about the Huntington Beach oil spill

What we know—and don’t know—about the Huntington Beach oil spill

By Sara Kiley Watson

point reyes national seashore lighthouse

Why Point Reyes’ new land management plan is so controversial

By Philip Kiefer

Researchers retraced a woolly mammoth’s steps 17,000 years after it died

Researchers retraced a woolly mammoth’s steps 17,000 years after it died

By Kate Baggaley

What is the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico, and why is it super-sized this year?

What is the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico, and why is it super-sized this year?

You could get the plague (but probably won’t)

By Claire Maldarelli

Videos show a surreal ‘eye of fire’ in the Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures at sea

Videos show a surreal ‘eye of fire’ in the Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures at sea

By Rachel Feltman

How rescue specialists search for survivors in collapsed buildings

How rescue specialists search for survivors in collapsed buildings

footprint in desert sand

Humans may have arrived in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than we thought

By Philip Kiefer

A Garibaldi fish swims through a California kelp forest.

These newly discovered sea sponges were hiding in plain sight in California’s kelp forests

This rare ‘Finding Nemo’ fish mysteriously washed up on a California beach

Glass entrance of Southern California Food Allergy Institute with doctor in scrubs walking out

This California clinic claims a 99 percent success rate in treating food allergies. Experts are skeptical.

By Esther Landhuis/Undark

Dinosaur bones in museum.

The T. rex ‘dynasty’ reigned for more than 125,000 generations

manatee underwater

The US is tropicalizing, and you’ve probably already noticed the change

By Philip Kiefer

grassy area burning in a forest fire

Forest fires leave behind charcoal—and it might be toxic for years

By Philip Kiefer

A coyote in the snow.

Eastern coyotes are increasingly common—here are 5 facts to know about them

By Bob Humphrey/ Outdoor Life

fisherman holding a rope on a boat

Post-pandemic seafood could be more sustainable. Here’s how tech is driving the change.

By Virginia Gewin

person walking in snowy street

Is this winter weather ‘normal’? And other questions about the historic storms in the US.

By Sara Chodosh

snow on tree branches in texas

The real story behind the Texas power outages

snow on wind turbines

Explaining this week’s deadly US cold snap

By Philip Kiefer

honeycomb in a plastic bag

Bee theft is almost a perfect crime—but there’s a new sheriff in town

By Andrew Zaleski

Nation's largest public housing project next to a power plant

At New York City’s biggest power plant, a switch to clean energy will help a neighborhood breathe easier

A lunar rainbow or moonbow stretching over the mountains at night in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

In perfect conditions, rainbows can come alive at night

By Purbita Saha

A pod of fish with red backs and green fins splashing in shallow running water.

North America’s biggest salmon run may no longer be in danger

By Alex Robinson / Outdoor Life

Alaska’s northern coast

Drilling the Arctic refuge doesn’t make sense—but Trump wants it to happen anyway

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News

Mighty Studio Building 3D Printed

A new material allows this company to 3D print most of a house in a single day

By Stan Horaczek

Warming waters may spell more back-to-back hurricanes for Gulf Coast residents

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News

mixed-conifer forest

Healthy forests do more than just prevent wildfires

By Bales & Conklin/The Conversation

The pandemic could end Texas’s oil boom—and start something better

By Justin Miller/Texas Observer

firefighters standing in a field full of small plumes of smoke

How we can burn our way to a better future

Loggers could soon slice through one of the most important forests in the US

By Bjorn Dihle/ Outdoor Life

A man on a four-wheeler equiped with brush bumpers.

Six ways to make your ATV even more rugged

By Tyler Freel/ Outdoor Life

How raging wildfires create hellish skies across the country

By Sara Kiley Watson

smoke rising from forest fire with mountain in background

California wildfires may give way to massive mudslides

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

This giant Gulf of Mexico reef is a conservation success story—here’s why it’s thriving

By Amal Ahmed/Texas Observer

Greece fires helicopter

How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies

jones fire california

California and the Forest Service have a plan to prevent future catastrophic fires

The Brooks Range sets the backdrop for vital caribou feeding grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil companies—but none may bite

By Scott L. Montgomery/The Conversation

a lightning bolt.

Two of the largest wildfires in California’s history are burning right now

By Rachel Feltman

A solar installer

California shut off power grids this week, but not because of clean energy

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media

Escaped exotic animals are changing the Texas landscape

By Asher Elbein/Texas Observer

A blue agave plant

Five burning questions about tequila, answered

By Purbita Saha

American hunters on horseback through the Yukon

With the US-Canada border closed, wildlife tourism is hurting

By Joe Genzel/ Outdoor Life

The Mexico City landscape

Mexico City buried its river and lakes to prevent disease. But then COVID-19 happened.

By Elena Delavega/The Conversation

The racial disparities in COVID cases are even more striking than we thought

By Claire Maldarelli

Into the Wild Bus

The tragic legacy behind the famous ‘Into the Wild’ bus

By Tyler Freel/ Outdoor Life

Kevin Shulz catches air at the Waco training grounds.

Pro surfers hit artificial waves in the heat of the climate crisis

Traveling midwives fill crucial health care gaps in rural US states

By Sophie Novack/Texas Observer

A cluster of spawning sockeye salmon.

The battle over Alaska’s Pebble Mine is about to get more dramatic

By Michael R. Shea/Field & Stream

Inuit researchers are leading a scientific movement to understand life on the ice

By Matthew Halliday/Undark

NASA final Shuttle launch

Astronauts explain what it’s like to be ‘shot off the planet’

alaska permafrost lab

Inside a frozen tunnel hiding the galaxy’s biggest secrets

By Madeline Ostrander/Undark

Cabin fever is real problem. But it's one you can solve.

How to avoid cabin fever (from someone who lives in an actual cabin)

By Tyler Freel/ Outdoor Life

The facade of the Movimiento Juventud 2000 migrant shelter.

Migrants don’t carry more viruses than anyone else

By Lourdes Medrano/Undark

the newly discovered dinosaur: Dineobellator notohesperus

These newly discovered raptors were like feather-covered cheetahs

By Kate Baggaley

This Alaskan town is a crucial stop on the Iditarod—for its pie

By Rossi Anastopoulo/Saveur

NTSB drone image

What authorities have learned so far about the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash

By Rob Mark/Flying

A green iguana on a palm tree trunk in Key West, Florida.

Iguanas are falling out of trees in Florida, and it’s completely fine

By Frank Mazzotti/The Conversation

firefighter looks out over burned land and fire

California needs to set more fires

Klamath National Forest

California’s trees could shift as global warming forces birds to move out

By Marlene Cimons/Nexus Media

Lionfish underwater

This harpoon-throwing robot is designed to hunt destructive lionfish

By Sara Kiley Watson

rendering of modular house on hill with shrubland around it

Fire-proofing California’s homes is possible—but at what cost?

By Eleanor Cummins

The California wildfire culprit no one’s talking about: invasive grasses

The California wildfire culprit no one’s talking about: invasive grasses

California is primed to burn—but humans aren’t exactly helping

California is primed to burn—but humans aren’t exactly helping

By Eleanor Cummins

A 500-year-dormant fault in California just shook our view of how earthquakes form

A 500-year-dormant fault in California just shook our view of how earthquakes form