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Environment

Oysters are breathing life into the Chesapeake Bay

A cage full of baby oysters being hauled from the Chesapeake Bay and bound for the Manokin River.

How single-stream recycling works — and how your choices can make it work better

A truck dumps recyclable items at the Brookhaven Material Recycling Facility in Yaphank, New York.

The advent of the ‘abundance’ movement

A tower crane owned by Torre Cranes in operation in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

The climate solution sitting in America’s trash

A pile of banana peels in the trash during a marathon in a city.

Talking to a door-to-door solar sales rep? Beware of these red flags.

Michael Reimann, installer with Lumina Solar, carries a large panel and his face is not visible while installs solar panels on the roof of a home in Kensington, MD on July 3, 2025.

The case for giving clothing a passport

A product tag on a blue clothing shirt with QR code for product details and impact.

Plants & Animals

How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds

A flock of sandhill cranes in Louisiana.

'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Thermal drone imagery showing more than a dozen unpermitted turbines operating at xAI's gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi.

Plants & Animals

Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators

A collage of thermogenic plants, clockwise from top left: sago palm (Cycas revoluta); Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), elephant-foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), calico-flower (Aristolochia littoralis), American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), Florida anise (Illicium floridanum), Rhizanthes lowii, dead-horse arum (Helicodiceros muscivorus).

Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch.

Desert plants grow among panels in the Gemini Solar Project, outside Las Vegas.