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Scientists have recovered an intact poppy seed and other plant remnants buried under two miles of ice in the heart of Greenland. The finding indicates that during a prior warm era, Greenland was almost entirely ice-free — an ominous precedent on a rapidly…

With the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic, villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in…

A new study has found that the Great Salt Lake, which has lost 73 percent of its water, is releasing climate-warming emissions. Read more on E360 →

A new study finds historical evidence that Congress had intended for the 1970 Clean Air Act to cover carbon dioxide emissions. The finding strengthens the legal case for regulating heat-trapping gases. Read more on E360 →

New analyses find that warming is fueling severe hot spells on both sides of the Atlantic this summer, spurring warnings about the need to guard against increasingly dangerous heat. Read more on E360 →

Kristi Ebi, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, has been studying the human health impacts of climate change for decades. In an interview with e360, she makes a case for standardizing how heat deaths are reported and for additional investment in…

Scientists have discovered that ponderosa pines effectively stop breathing when beset by wildfire smoke. Read more on E360 →

Scientists studying migrations, endangered species, and global change are placing tracking devices on thousands of animals that will be monitored by a satellite-based system set to launch next year. If successful, the project could help illuminate the…

A survey of litter on British beaches has found an 80 percent drop in plastic bags over the last decade, which advocates say was brought about by a small charge added to disposable bags. Read more on E360 →

To track the sources of mercury pollution across wildlands in the U.S., scientists have turned to an unlikely indictor: dragonfly larvae. Read more on E360 →

The global steel industry is turning away from polluting coal-fired blast furnaces and toward cleaner electric arc furnaces, which now account for roughly half of all planned steelmaking capacity, according to a new report. Read more on E360 →

Federal officials are set to launch an effort to save the threatened northern spotted owl by killing thousands of invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The initiative is supported by mainstream conservation organizations but opposed by animal welfare…

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An international body of botanists voted Thursday to rename more than 200 species of plants, fungi, and algae whose scientific names include variations of the word "caffra," an Arabic word for "infidel" that is used as a racial slur against Black people. Read…

Roishetta Ozane founded a grassroots organization to help frontline Louisiana communities recover from back-to-back hurricanes. Soon, she was educating people about the deadly interconnections between fossil fuel development, climate disasters, and…

Newly released photographs from the Peruvian Amazon reveal dozens of uncontacted Indigenous people, members of the Mashco Piro tribe, only a few miles from an area where logging is set to begin. Read more on E360 →

Despite warnings that climate change would create widespread desertification, many drylands are getting greener because of increased CO2 in the air — a trend that recent studies indicate will continue. But scientists warn this added vegetation may soak up…

By melting Arctic sea ice, warming has opened the long-fabled Northwest Passage, a shipping route from Europe to Asia that traces the northern edge of Canada. But a new study finds that ships now making this journey are increasingly facing more hazardous forms…

There is a 70 percent chance that the Pacific will shift from its warmer El Niño phase to its cooler La Niña phase between August and October, U.S. officials say, likely bringing an end to a long stretch of unprecedented warmth. Read more on E360 →

China is erecting twice as much wind and solar capacity as every other country put together, according to an analysis of large renewable energy projects. Increasingly in China, wind and solar are edging coal off the power grid. Read more on E360 →