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[l] at 8/7/26 3:13am
Mountain lions in Washington state may be cutting down on traffic accidents by scaring deer away from roads, new research finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 8/5/26 11:46pm
For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined "harm" as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 8/5/26 6:56am
In "Land Less" — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 8/4/26 6:30am
In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar, analysts say.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 8/3/26 7:16am
El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/31/26 7:04am
A landmark study of the towering ash trees that grow in the mountains of Victoria, Australia, which was launched in the 1980s, boosted arguments for clearcutting the iconic trees. But when scientists returned to the site years later, they came to a much different conclusion.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/30/26 4:07am
Since the colonial era, India has regarded its native scrublands and savannas as little more than degraded forest. Now, amid a growing recognition of rangelands globally, officials are working to map the nation's ailing grasslands, with a view to restoring these vital ecosystems. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/29/26 7:25am
In May, a group of fishers on the Indonesian island of Biak were dismantling an unexploded shell left over from World War II when the device went off, reportedly killing seven people and injuring 19 others. Officials have concluded that the fishers were harvesting materials from the shell for use in blast fishing.  Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/28/26 7:33am
In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/27/26 6:18am
In a summer of record heat waves, France and Spain are now facing wildfires that have forced the evacuations of more than 300,000 people. Scientists say that a sharp swing from wet to dry weather, a signature of climate change, helped fuel the blazes.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/24/26 6:52am
The use of small, controlled burns to clear out flammable underbrush has saved thousands of giant sequoias from devastating wildfires, new research finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/23/26 3:55am
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/22/26 8:08am
Last year, the acreage burned in the Brazilian Amazon reached its lowest level in at least four decades.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/21/26 5:17am
Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the West African nation of Benin, scientists have at last found the reef.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/20/26 1:00pm
As global warming fuels more extreme rainfall in Appalachia, new research finds a link between flooding and opioid deaths.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/17/26 9:02am
The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the past 60 years, though, humans have bled it nearly dry irrigating cotton crops, leaving behind a salty plain the size of Ireland. Its loss has long been seen as an ecological and humanitarian problem, but new research shows that it has also been a significant driver of climate change.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/16/26 7:21am
A Japanese steel giant has pledged billions in new investment in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River Valley, raising hopes that it would clean up pollution from its steel mills in the region. But documents show that its plans to ramp up production will worsen local air quality.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/15/26 12:00pm
Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is just the fifth new species of African monkey discovered in the last 75 years.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/14/26 7:45am
As China erects the largest hydropower installation on Earth atop an active fault line in the Himalayas, Chinese scientists are calling on engineers to guard against risks from earthquakes.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/13/26 6:49am
Western Europe recorded more than 10,000 excess deaths during an unprecedented June heat wave, an analysis finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 7/10/26 6:24am
Four Ugandan farmers have launched a suit in the U.K. High Court against a controversial oil pipeline being built in East Africa. The suit is a last-ditch effort to halt the project before it goes online in October. Read more on E360 →

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