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Read this article in English. La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sentenció el pasado jueves, 13 de marzo, que Ecuador violó los derechos de los pueblos indígenas no contactados que viven en la selva amazónica, una decisión histórica que golpea…

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rollbacks of pollution regulations would kill Americans and be a “tragedy” for health, physicians and public health experts say. At a virtual panel hosted by the American Lung Association on Wednesday,…

A new analysis of ancient layers of peat at the bottom of the North Sea will help scientists more accurately project how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries. The research shows how fast sea level rose about 11,000 years ago, at the end…

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an island in a sea of farmland where corn and soybeans grow, sits the Soybean Innovation Lab. The institution, part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Feed the Future initiative, helps advance…

For four decades, Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta worked in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a firsthand observer of the evolution of science within the agency.  As the principal deputy assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Research and Development…

Global sea levels rose faster than expected last year, largely due to warming ocean temperatures, a new NASA analysis found.  As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this brine…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—At around 11 p.m. Saturday night, James Spann was winding down his ninth hour of live news coverage of a deadly storm system that spawned 16 suspected tornadoes across central Alabama. The National Weather Service in Birmingham has confirmed…

CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz.—It was a rare rainy day, with a brief sprinkle of snow in southeastern Arizona where the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Madre Occidental range, Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts come together. Still, the cold didn’t stop roughly…

A tall sierra rises around Monterrey, Mexico’s second-largest metropolitan area and Nuevo León’s state capital. Thick smog clings to the ground, obscuring the city’s once-imposing landscape. “We can’t breathe anymore,” Ximena Peredo, a political…

Severe weather and fire warnings continue after a deadly storm system this weekend unleashed more than 50 tornadoes across the South and Midwest and spawned fierce winds, sparking dust storms, wildfires and destruction. Across the country, the National Weather…