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liquid air battery amid green trees

Renewable energy: Construction starts on globe’s biggest liquid air battery

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change

typhoon as seen from space station

Coronavirus is an SOS: Mend our broken relationship with nature, says UN and WHO

By Damian Carrington | Biosecurity, Climate Change

David Quammen portrait

How it feels to predict a pandemic: Interview with David Quammen, author of Spillover

By Dan Drollette Jr | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Special Topics

industrial landscape, smoke, high tension wires

“We’re Number… 24.” US near back of pack among developed nations on environment

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

sunset, waves, ocean

By 2050, climate change in the ocean could be seven times faster

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change

offshore windfarm seen from top of wind turbine

What will coronavirus do to renewable energy?

By Beth Gardiner | Biosecurity, Climate Change

Is Amazon rainforest going from carbon sink to carbon source?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

miner in permafrost tunnel in Alaska

Scientists are racing to understand permafrost before it’s gone

By Madeline Ostrander | Climate Change

Known as pyramid tents or Scott tents, they’re essentially the same tent design used by the original polar explorers a hundred years ago, capable of withstanding winds of up to 70 miles per hour. “They’re just so good, they got the design perfect,” says the author. Image courtesy of Peter Davis.

Peter Davis of the British Antarctic Survey on changes in the Thwaites Glacier

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli | Analysis, Climate Change

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli

A forest test plot, where snow was removed to see the effects of the lack of this insulating blanket. (Image courtesy of Pamela Templer.)

Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer

By Dan Drollette Jr