Science

Calculating Your Vacation’s Carbon Footprint, One Travel Mode at a Time

A new tool says trains are almost always greener than planes. Also, climate anxiety in the U.K., the environmental destruction of Guam, and smaller, slower, less pollinating butterflies.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires

By Twilight Greenaway

Toxic Metals Entered Soil From Pittsburgh Steel-Industry Emissions, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities

By Phil McKenna

Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters

By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Warming Trends: A Comedy With Solar Themes, a Greener Cryptocurrency and the Underestimated Climate Supermajority

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Scientists Say Pakistan’s Extreme Rains Were Intensified by Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

Where Thick Ice Sheets in Antarctica Meet the Ground, Small Changes Could Have Big Consequences

By Bob Berwyn

‘Timber Cities’ Might Help Decarbonize the World

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Video Gamers Helping the Climate, a Big Advance for Lab-Grown Meat and Belabored Decisions May Bring Better Results, If Not More Happiness

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Climate Insomnia, the Decline of Alpine Bumblebees and Cycling like the Dutch and the Danes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Study Finds that Mississippi River Basin Could be in an ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ in 30 Years

By Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian, and Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media

Despite Misunderstandings, Scientists and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Have Collaborated on Research Into Mercury Pollution

By Myriam Vidal

Ubiquitous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Increase Risk of Liver Cancer, Researchers Report

By Victoria St. Martin

The Botanic Matchmakers that Could Save Our Food Supply

By Mark Schapiro

Warming Trends: Bill Nye’s New Focus on Climate Change, Bottled Water as a Social Lens and the Coming End of Blacktop

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Without Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Countries in the Tropics and Subtropics Could Face ‘Extreme’ Heat Danger by 2100, a New Study Concludes

By Victoria St. Martin