Many people assume that climate change will force huge numbers of people to migrate across borders. A Stanford researcher says that’s unlikely – but that does not mean everyone’s OK. In her research, ...

This article has been adapted and republished with permission of the authors. We are facing a wide range of enormous environmental crises, including biodiversity loss and climate change. Human ...

A look at what we know and don’t yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they’ll make landfall. It’s well established ...

A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills with evacuations ordered on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The ...

People walk through West Potomac Park during a snowstorm that dropped 5.9" in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 2025, with another 0.5" early on Feb. 12. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) When ...

Goodbye, Paris Agreement; hello, National Energy Dominance Council, the body tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s fossil-fuel-forward agenda. The executive order establishing the ...

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer ...

What does a pencil have to say about the future? What does a song, a smell, a coyote, or a lush Haitian garden teach us about how to live in a world in flux? Artists are examining these questions as ...

The deadliest U.S. flash flood from a thunderstorm complex in nearly a half-century swept through the Hill Country of Texas early morning on July 4, killing at least 89 people, including 27 from Camp ...

Rafik Danwade is one of the few farmers who has kept the practice of trap cropping alive. He has taught it to his sons, ensuring his family remembers the sustainable farming practices he learned from ...

Growing up in suburban Ohio, I was used to seeing farmland and woods disappear to make room for new subdivisions, strip malls, and big box stores. I didn’t usually welcome the changes, but I assumed ...

Imagine a home so efficient that it could be heated with a hair dryer. That’s the promise of a passive house, a design standard that’s becoming increasingly popular in the architecture community for ...