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The new documentary 'ThuleTuvalu' shows how global warming is transforming lives on opposite sides of the planet.
When glaciers stop growing, they 'die,' but scientists recently discovered a glacier in Iceland where dead ice has risen again.
Ocean acidification could be the ultimate weight-loss plan for fish. And that’s not a good thing.
Should we fight climate change by paying rainforest farmers not to raze trees?
Hundreds of toxic chemicals fall off the EPA’s radar when they spill into our waterways.
Not everyone was happy when wolves returned to Yellowstone (the deer, for one), but the place is better with them there.
After an abnormally calm September, storms Gonzalo, Fay, and Ana are bringing hurricane season back with a bang.
Who's to blame for the modern antibiotics crisis? It started with the same guys who invented Spam.
A new government report adds four more industrial chemicals to a growing number of carcinogens.
INVASIVES WEEK: How have invasive species managed to throw Kauai’s five-million-year-old ecosystem into jeopardy in just 200 years? Simple: They’ve worked together.
INVASIVES WEEK: I did my thing for the environment by feasting on strange creatures at a weirdly
delicious New Haven sushi restaurant.
LEDs could help slow global warming and educate the developing world. Now
that's worth a Nobel Prize.
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