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The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant. By Phil McKenna Pollution from gas stoves accounts for more than half of some Americans’ total exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a toxin…
The ancient, enormous fish have lived on Earth for more than 150 million years but changing weather conditions have researchers questioning whether future generations will thrive. By Stefan Lovgren On a cool October morning, members of the St. Croix Chippewa…
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain for gravity-based energy storage, and the company…
U.K. and Dutch export credit agencies have withdrawn their financial commitments for French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’ gas project in Mozambique, in an unprecedented move that marks the latest setback for the controversial project. UK Export Finance (UKEF), a…
When it comes to monogamy, humans more closely resemble meerkats and beavers than our primate cousins.
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment Scientists have issued an urgent warning that some of the synthetic chemicals that help underpin the current food system are driving increased rates…
BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local…
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BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil promoted COP30 as both the “Indigenous COP” and the “Amazonian COP,” a summit that would finally center the peoples who have protected the rainforest for millennia. Belém, the host city on the mouth of the Amazon…
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of…