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Paul Souders / Getty World Penguin Day 2023
Images of these unique creatures from across the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere
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Vadym Plysiuk / Getty Do Not Allow Even One Fruit Fly Into Your Kitchen Compost
Collecting food scraps in your kitchen can invite insect invaders. But there are plenty of ways to outsmart them.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty A California Superbloom
Recent colorful images from several locations across Southern California
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Paul Morigi / Getty A Collection of Cherry Blossoms
Images of flowering cherry-blossom trees across the Northern Hemisphere
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Ford A Classic American Car Is Having an Identity Crisis
Ford’s electric Mustang, the Mach-E, is attracting an unusual bunch of drivers—including me.
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Mario Tama / Getty A Blanket of Snow for California
A collection of unusually snowy scenes from California, Nevada, and Arizona
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Brian Finke for The Atlantic The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
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Mario Tama / Getty Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West
The demise of salt lakes threatens humans and wildlife alike.
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Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land
As a result of stormier seas caused by climate change, lifelong fishers have more than a month’s less ocean time on average than they did 40 years ago.
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Jan Richard Heinicke / laif / Redux Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener
A classic urban trade-off might not be our destiny. That’s great news for the climate.
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Thilo Schmuelgen / Reuters Despite Protests, a German Coal Mine Expands
Images of demonstrations in the village of Luetzerath, beside a gigantic coal-mine pit
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Carl Court / Getty What Snow Days Mean to Adults
An ode to a natural gift that could melt away
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Patrick Hertzog / AFP / Getty A Visit to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Images from a recent voyage to several groups of subantarctic islands
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Getty; The Atlantic Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us
The downside of heavy, overpowered trucks and SUVs
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Rop van Mierlo Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
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Arno Balzarini / Keystone / Redux Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe
Climate change is threatening this yuletide classic.
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Johan Ordonez / AFP / Getty 2022: The Year in Volcanic Activity
Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year
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Mark Power / Magnum Boston Is Losing Its Snow Wicked Fast
New England is warming more quickly than almost anywhere else on Earth.
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Brandon Bell / Getty Images What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future
A tantalizing new scientific breakthrough will mean little if we don’t build the infrastructure to support it.
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Barneo AG Arctic Adventurers Have a Russia Problem
The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.
