Why Does Climate Change Worsen Droughts?
Droughts are a major impact of climate change and water shortages, crop failures, and wildfires. Why do they happen, and how can they be solved?
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Mercury: The “Mad Hatter” Chemical Still Persists in...
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Rising Temperatures Are Changing the Taste of Tea
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Saudi Arabia Is Home to the World’s Largest...
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How Do We Protect Avocados From Drought, Deforestation,...
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Lab-Grown Meat: Future Climate Solution or Icky Science...
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Quiz: How Many Mice Are in Your Walls?
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How Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest Responded...
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Ventilation: Buildings Are a Major Energy and Money...
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How Do We Make Wastewater Treatment Plants the...
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What’s the Deal With All This Plastic Straw...
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Canada’s Largest Gas Field Is Polluting First Nation...
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What Comes Next for Venezuela’s Oil Industry?
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Fracking: What Is It and Why Is It...
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Red Spruce: How Climate Change Could Impact Nova...
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If Your Date Does Any of These Things,...
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What Are the Environmental and Economic Issues Facing...
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After the Montreal Protocol, Where Are We With...
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The Sweaty Penguin’s Guide to Procrastinating on Climate...
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How Climate Change Impacts Each Type of Natural Disaster
After every extreme weather event, tweets and headlines suggest climate change played a role. How does this process actually work?
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Do We Notice Extreme Heat When It’s Not in Our Backyard?
Climbing temperatures, heat warnings and advisories, and active wildfires across the U.S. start summer off on a sweltering start.
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Quiz: Which Climate Anxiety Coping Mechanism Are You?
Wildfires, extreme heat, sea level rise, extreme storms. How do you react to climate change? Find out your climate anxiety coping mechanism.
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What Are Aerosols and How Do They Impact Our Climate System?
Aerosols are a wide range of particles that affect precipitation and human health. Where do they come from, and what do we do about it?
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The Little Fire That Could
A little cold weather didn't stop this Colorado wildfire from working its way to fame.
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How Climate Change and Air Pollution Could Worsen the Flu
Even though the flu is worst in the winter, climate change has a surprising and counterintuitive effect on the severity of this virus.
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Goats Are Pooping to Prevent Wildfires, Firefighters More Hesitant
Firefighters are courageous, but when it comes to dropping the pants and getting down to business, goats may take the cake.
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California Trees, Notorious Conspiracy Theorists, Given Tin Foil Hats
Firefighters have started wrapping Sequoia trees in aluminum blankets to prevent embers from entering old fire scars... or so they say...
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PFAS: How Climate Change Could Worsen the ‘Forever Chemical’ Crisis
This class of chemicals lead to a slew of negative health effects, and never break down. Could climate change worsen their impacts?
