Science

Plants & Animals

Undeterred by climate change, US homeowners are moving to climate-vulnerable areas

County Map of wildfire risk based on FEMA National Risk Index

21 Jun 2022

11 proven ways women can lower cholesterol after 40

A middle-aged woman jogging at the park.

Future-proof your body: Beginner biohacks that could add years

A modern home sauna with bathrobes hanging on its wall.

Every 30 minutes, someone arrives at an ER with a gunshot wound, according to the CDC

Staff in the Trauma Unit at the John H. Stroger Jr. Cook County Hospital treat a man with a gunshot wound.

Switching from a compounded to a brand-name GLP-1? Here’s how to do it in 5 steps

Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy pens on a white background.

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Environment

Support for renewables shrinks as fossil fuel interest grows

Wind turbines in federal ocean waters installed in 2020 as part of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot project.

This little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making your city hotter

Workers install a new roof on the Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.

The fix for parched Western states: Recycled toilet water

The director of water re-use operations for startup Epic Cleantec holds up a sample of treated water.

04 Jun 2025

Climate disasters inflict outsized harm on pregnant and young families

Residents that canoed the flooded South Fork New River talk at a washed out road on September 27, 2024 in Boone, North Carolina

Earth's orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse.

Long-exposure taken over 30 seconds showing many satellites moving across the night sky appearing as dotted lines.

08 May 2025

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Plants & Animals

How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds

A flock of sandhill cranes in Louisiana.

Plants & Animals

Got invasive plants? Call a herd of goats

Two goats in a herd smiling happily eating invasive plants in a wide land.

Plants & Animals

04 Apr 2025

Fish are thriving in the river Seine

A view of one of the bridges over the river Seine in Paris, France.

Plants & Animals

14 Mar 2025

Planning for spring's garden? Bees like variety and don't care about your neighbors' yards

Closeup on a bumblebee feeding on a yellow cosmos flower.

Plants & Animals

28 Feb 2025

Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators

A collage of thermogenic plants, clockwise from top left: sago palm (Cycas revoluta); Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), elephant-foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), calico-flower (Aristolochia littoralis), American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), Florida anise (Illicium floridanum), Rhizanthes lowii, dead-horse arum (Helicodiceros muscivorus).

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Space

5 of the rarest astronomical events—and when you'll next see them

The head of Halley's Comet as photographed by Dr George Willis Ritchey.

29 Mar 2024

25 of the best places to see the solar eclipse across the US

The beginning of a solar eclipse as seen through very light cloud cover.

28 Mar 2024

23 astronomical events to look out for in 2023

A view of a Perseid meteor shower in a purple sky with pine trees in the foreground.

27 Dec 2022

33 groundbreaking NASA missions in photographs

Webb NIRCam composite image from two filters – F212N (orange) and F335M (cyan) – of Jupiter system.

28 Sep 2022

Space discoveries that will blow your mind

An image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephans Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies

27 Sep 2022

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Weather

How do hurricanes affect baby names?

A sleeping baby bundled in a blue beanie with a pom pom and a blue blanket..

14 Apr 2025

Mango farms where? Climate change is scrambling where the world's food is grown.

Six varieties of mangoes line the fields at PapaMango in Sicily.

14 Mar 2025

Oh, great: Rat populations are surging as cities heat up

A rat looking for food in a New York City subway station platform.

07 Mar 2025

Fast fashion is haunting L.A.'s wildfire relief efforts

Volunteers sort through piles of clothing and textile donations made to California wildfire victims.

13 Feb 2025

What hurricane season was like the year you were born

A train underwater, a beach road destroyed after a storm and a figure watching palm trees bend in the waves and wind.

16 Jun 2025

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