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Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in ...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify ...

The next time you’re on a flight worrying about destroying the planet, rest easy knowing that at least you’re not ...

When wildfires devastated a wide swath of Los Angeles last winter, officials warned residents of several ZIP codes not to ...

When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan, ...

In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...

When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the ...

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing ...

Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking ...

A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the ...

Wealthy investors and asset managers wield a lot of power over the major companies whose stock they own or control. Every year, ...