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Environment

Sustainability & Climate

This city turned its rooftops into a climate shield

A rooftop with greenery in an urban neighborhood.

The rise of extreme weather and how it’s impacting power outages and fire watch needs

An incoming haboob or dust storm in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Sustainability & Climate

The Great Lakes are ideal for wind energy. So where is it?

Zsofia Trasy at the Lake Michigan crash against the Promontory Point's shoreline in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures

A turtle escapes from a net via a turtle excluder device. The contraptions direct the creatures to an opening without letting shrimp — the target catch — get away.

Plants & Animals

In his latest book, David George Haskell shows how flowers made our world

White and pink flowers on a barren rocky shore in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.

Plants & Animals

Pocket gardens: The tiny urban oases with surprisingly big benefits

A pocket garden at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.

Plants & Animals

Can we bring back the butterflies?

Migrating monarch butterflies on a pine tree.

Sustainability & Climate

98% greenwashing: Big Meat follows in Big Oil’s footsteps

Cows seen grazing near solar panels at Ningxia Saishang Muyuan Animal Husbandry Ecological Breeding Enterprise in China.

Judges overseeing Louisiana's landmark oil cases have financial stakes in defendants

Oil infrastructure in Abbeville, La., on March 27, 2026.

Sustainability & Climate

A record warm winter could send Lake Powell to a historic low. Flaming Gorge may be its lifeline.

A powerboat cuts through the water on Lake Powell near Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona.