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Environment July 24, 2026

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

by Kevin T. Smiley, Louisiana State University ; Deepti Singh, Washington State University; Jennifer Marlon, Yale University, and Jim Hurrell, Colorado State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation,…

Environment July 20, 2026

How hot does it get in the desert? A climate scientist explains its blazing heat

by Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a…

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Environment June 26, 2026

Longtime Exxon CEO Lee Raymond’s legacy of climate denial and misinformation lives on – a psychologist offers ways to counter it

by Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million…

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Health & Wellness April 13, 2026

Pennsylvania Town Faces Fallout From Trump’s Environmental Rule Rollback

This article by Stephanie Armour and Maia Rosenfeld first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Stephanie Armour and Maia Rosenfeld, April 13, 2026 North America’s largest coke plant…

Environment April 8, 2026

Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future

by Renee Obringer, Penn State and Dave White, Arizona State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When a drought turns into an urban water crisis,…

Environment March 16, 2026

How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate

by Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Georgia Institute of Technology and Joe Frank Bozeman III, Georgia Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Every day, food…

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Environment February 13, 2026

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise

by Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with…

Government & Politics, National Government January 12, 2026

Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections

by Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the…

Weather & Environment December 24, 2025

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience

by Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a…

Weather & Environment October 13, 2025

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

by Alexandra A Phillips, University of California, Santa Barbara, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds…

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Opinion October 17, 2026