New Orleans’ billion-dollar levees survived Hurricane Ida. Can they handle what’s coming? By Philip Kiefer
Deadly heatwaves like those in the Pacific Northwest will only become more common By Sara Kiley Watson
Agriculture This ancient farming practice could get a boost from the US farm bill By Ashley Stimpson/Nexus Media
Climate Change The ISS’s latest delivery includes space plants and atmospheric lightning monitors By Andrew Paul
Climate Change These species were discovered in museum collections. They might already be extinct. By Katarina Zimmer / Undark
Climate Change It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it. By Mark Olalde/ProPublica
Climate Change The US doesn’t have a law mandating EV battery recycling. Should it? By Gabriela Aoun Angueira/Grist
Conservation Air quality monitoring stations could help track and preserve threatened species By Laura Baisas
Conservation Lionfish are now threatening ecosystems and livelihoods in Brazil By Osmar J. Luiz/The Conversation
Conservation The role of people in preserving nature, according to America’s National Parks docuseries By Laura Baisas
Conservation These species were discovered in museum collections. They might already be extinct. By Katarina Zimmer / Undark
Conservation This fake beach is a magnet for tourists—and peaceful endangered sharks By Dag Goering/Hakai Magazine
Conservation Scientists and Indigenous people team up to build a kelp seed bank By Natalia Mesa/Hakai Magazine
Energy It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it. By Mark Olalde/ProPublica
Energy The US doesn’t have a law mandating EV battery recycling. Should it? By Gabriela Aoun Angueira/Grist
Energy Gasoline use isn’t falling fast enough. Targeting ‘superusers’ could help. By Kate Yoder/Grist
Energy Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly ‘junk,’ according to global watchdog investigation By Laura Baisas
Sustainability The US doesn’t have a law mandating EV battery recycling. Should it? By Gabriela Aoun Angueira/Grist
Sustainability The Dallas airport is testing out EV charging bots that roll around like suitcases By Andrew Paul
Sustainability A robot gardener outperformed human horticulturalists in one vital area By Andrew Paul
Sustainability 1 in 5 people are likely to live in dangerously hot climates by 2100 By Kristoffer Tigue/Inside Climate News
Sustainability Gasoline use isn’t falling fast enough. Targeting ‘superusers’ could help. By Kate Yoder/Grist
A spacecraft engineer’s wisdom from Mars 2020 and a disaster-stricken island By Elio Morillo / Jun 7, 2023
1 in 5 people are likely to live in dangerously hot climates by 2100 By Kristoffer Tigue/Inside Climate News / May 29, 2023
This ancient farming practice could get a boost from the US farm bill By Ashley Stimpson/Nexus Media / May 20, 2023
California and the Midwest prep for floods with record levels of snow melt By Laura Baisas / Apr 26, 2023