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Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina has also disrupted the underground nests of yellow jackets, bees and other…
California wildfires have already burned three times as many acres compared to all of 2023—and it’s about to get so much worse
TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Alex Luna, a 20-year-old missionary, saw the sky turn from a cherry red to black…
Texas hospitals are overwhelmed with people suffering from heat-related illnesses—’this wasn’t as big a problem five or 10 years ago’
HOUSTON — Widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Beryl have sent a wave of patients to Houston-area hospitals for treatment…
America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of waste oozing dangerous methane, scientists found
America’s landfills—and the environmental havoc they create—are sizable. There are roughly 1,200 landfills currently in operation and on average, each…
Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan
The world’s rich nations have agreed, several times, that helping poor countries cope with the fallout from climate change is…
Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America’s critical bee shortage in just 5 years
There’s now a record number of honeybees humming in the U.S—and for many farmers, hobbyist beekeepers, and almond-milk lovers, the…