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Environment

Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia.’ Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the cost.

Ashley Gaignard points toward the CF Industries smoke stacks in Donaldsonville, La. That plant emits more air pollutants than all but one other facility nationwide, EPA data show.

Plants & Animals

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

Eight clones of Virolita, one of the most valuable polo mares of her generation, produced by the Argentine laboratory Kheiron Biotech in 2016. This was one of the first successful cases of multiple cloning of a high-performance horse.

Sustainability & Climate

Canada’s biggest nickel mine could store carbon in its waste rock, if all goes to plan

A hill of processed concentrate nickel.

Sustainability & Climate

These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin

Fans powering a cryptocurrency farm.

Fear over farmland loss is slowing renewable energy development in rural areas

Solar panels at the Wooly Pig Farm Brewery in Fresno, Ohio.

Sustainability & Climate

Why one geologist thinks we should all pay more attention to rocks

Close up of a migmatite boulder of the Natal-Namaqua metamorphic belt.

Sustainability & Climate

Wildfire retardants help stop fires, but also impact ecosystems

A firefighting aircraft drops the fire retardant Phos-Chek near homes during the Palisades Fire on January 10, 2025 in Topanga, California.

Sustainability & Climate

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives

View of a smokestack coming from the Pinova plastic resin manufacturing facility in Brunswick, Georgia.

Sustainability & Climate

How do you build a house that could get grandma through the apocalypse?

A rendering of a shed as part of Yunesit'in wildfire-resilient house.

Sustainability & Climate

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam troops

Hurricane Michael brought flooding and extensive damage to Tyndall Air Force base in Florida in 2018.