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When former President Donald Trump announced that the United States would exit the Paris climate agreement in 2017, hundreds of mayors across the country pledged to keep pursuing the goals of the accord. Among them was New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who…

It was meant to be an express line from North America’s largest proven oil reserve to its biggest refining center and to deepen the bond between Canada and the United States as petroleum partners. And it would have stood—or rather, lain—four feet…

SCIENCE Crowd-Sourcing Butterflies Photographed a butterfly lately? If so, you could send your pictures in to contribute to a global database of butterfly sightings. Since launching in January, Friend of the Earth, an environmental advocacy organization, has…

The international goal to limit global warming seemed far away this week, as the most recent round of United Nations climate negotiations ended with concerns about a lack of progress on key issues like climate financing for developing countries and a global…

Existing plans to limit global warming rely too much on “increasingly unrealistic assumptions” that societies will be able to remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere while simultaneously maintaining incessant economic growth over the next 50…

For drivers on I-80 in Northeast Ohio, the giant manufacturing complex in Lordstown is a landmark, the place where General Motors spent decades making cars like the Chevrolet Cavalier. GM stopped producing vehicles there in 2019, the latest of many blows to an…

Last month, a red tint began to spread across the surface of the glacial waters of Kachemak Bay, Alaska. It was a signal: another algal bloom had arrived. The blooms, caused by the rapid growth of plankton in a short amount of time, can spell trouble for…

Harry Wright’s new range of smartly packaged seasonings looks like the sort of artisanal fare found at any foodie market or upmarket deli. But they have a distinctive ingredient: ground, roasted crickets. “Once the crickets are in with the herbs and…

Much of the debate over President Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal has been over its $2 trillion price tag. But the most powerful tool for tackling the climate crisis in the American Jobs Plan, in the view of many environmentalists, isn’t money, but…

The day is etched in Lemont Taylor’s memory unlike any other. He met his doctor on Dec. 14, 2014 to go over lab results from an earlier visit. A few minutes and a couple dozen words later, Taylor’s life had changed. “I was told I had stage four bladder…