Environment
How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in...
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Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton
We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These...
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Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
Planetary scientists agree that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface and a water-rich atmosphere, far different...
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Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is...
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Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is...
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War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
Ezgi Canpolat, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University -
The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow...
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Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
2026 marks the dawn of a momentous era: humankind taking our first steps towards colonising Mars.
Later this year, NASA’s...
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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to...
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The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today
Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of...
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Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and...
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Rosenberg: Kremlin’s tightening grip on internet fuels public discontent
Throughout Russia, internet usage has become seriously restricted. Citizens are drawing comparison to Soviet censorship and today's digital blackouts.
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