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The projected costs of this summer’s extreme heat: 235,000 ER visits, 56,000 hospital admissions—and $1 billion

By Zoya Teirstein | Climate Change

Automakers move closer to EV owners’ dream of a single charging network

By Gabriela Aoun Angueira | Climate Change

Heat dome five times more likely due to climate change, say researchers

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

Stretches of the Mojave Desert, Central Basin and Range, and the Colorado Plateau—each immense ecoregions that help define the West—converge in this landscape, with many plants and wildlife at the edges of their ranges. Plants exist here that are found nowhere else on earth. BLM photo. (CC BY 2.0)

The Public Lands Rule: Can conservation leasing mitigate impacts from energy and mining?

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

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When looking is dangerous: How solar radiation management research can harm

By Aaron Tang | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

This is a section of the cover of a 1972 Bulletin magazine issue that focused on the impact humans have on the environment.

Tomorrow’s fossils: Experimental embryology and endangered animal species in 1972

By Robert T. Francoeur | Climate Change

Patagonian paradise lost? The environmental hazards of farming fish in a warming world

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

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Dam explosion in Ukraine unleashes ‘ecological disaster’

By Nitish Pahwa | Climate Change

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Wildfires push air quality in East Coast cities almost off the charts

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

‘Uncharted territory’: Warming oceans and disappearing sea ice alarm scientists

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Scientists identify over 5,000 new species at future deep-sea mining site

By Karen McVeigh | Climate Change

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French activists protest climate crisis with fire

By Damien Gayle | Climate Change