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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm
The world is looking for more clean water. Intense storms and warmer weather have worsened droughts and reduced the amount of clean water underground and in rivers and lakes on the surface.Under pressure to provide...
Environment
Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games
Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in...
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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.Scrambling to meet...
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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?
In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including from vehicles and fossil fuel power plants, endanger public health and welfare. The decision, known as the endangerment finding, was based...
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The best new science fiction books of February 2026
Do you want to travel to Mars, to an alternate version of 1939 London or even to the very...
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Winter storms don’t have to be deadly – here’s how to stay safe before, during and after one hits
A powerful winter storm that left hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. without power for days in freezing temperatures in late January 2026 has been linked to more than 80 deaths, and the...
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Over 100 deaths linked to January storm: Here’s how to stay safe as more cold, stormy weather moves in
A powerful winter storm that left hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. without power for days in freezing temperatures in late January 2026 has been linked to more than 100 deaths, and the...
Environment
Over 100 deaths linked to January storms – here’s how to stay safe when cold, snowy weather moves in
Powerful winter storms that left hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. without power for days in freezing temperatures in late January 2026 have been linked to more than 100 deaths, and the cold...
Environment
EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health
When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such...
Environment
Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along
Friction: A biographyJennifer R. Vail, Harvard University Press
IN 2009, World Aquatics banned a specific type of swimsuit from all...
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Former Prince Andrew moves out of Royal Lodge in Windsor as
London — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles II who was previously known...
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