Category : Science / Environment

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Science / Environment

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Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse thumbnail

Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse

Microplastics cause clouds to form in places where they wouldn’t...

Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water thumbnail

Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of

Zebra mussels, hydrilla, and now a water flea have made...

How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away thumbnail

How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of...

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them thumbnail

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides.

Plantix started with the mission of making farming more environmentally...

OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion thumbnail

OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After

A US Attorney’s office is investigating the company behind the...

Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics thumbnail

Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics

New research highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how nonhuman...

California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It thumbnail

California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan

Credit environmentally conscious students—and a handful of state funding programs.

After Hurricane Milton, Get Ready for Mold thumbnail

After Hurricane Milton, Get Ready for Mold

Thousands may now be at risk of mold-related illnesses following...

Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air thumbnail

Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so

A Tampa-based company that makes atmospheric water generators and the...

The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth thumbnail

The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth

In a world of increasingly powerful hurricanes and other rising...