Environment

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Environment

A Florida oyster fishery and its community fight for their future

A couple harvesting oysters at a coastal farm.

Sustainability & Climate

What, exactly, is happening with renewables in Alberta?

Wind turbines along the Crowsnest Highway near Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada.

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

A neighborhood community where two people were seen urban farming.

The Grand Canyon has a water problem

Smoke from the Dragon Bravo fire settles into the Grand Canyon along the South Rim at Mather point on July 17, 2025 in Grand Canyon, Arizona.

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.