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A NASA project to study snowstorms in the Northeast has faced a lack of storms and a broken plane. They’re not giving up.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hungry Animals Can Change How Severely a Landscape Burns
From tiny insects to big ungulates, animals and their choice of chow can make ecosystems less or more prone to go up in flames.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts
A typical drought is a slow-motion catastrophe. But scientists are trying to figure out a phenomenon called a flash drought, which forms in as little as two weeks.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Think Ride Sharing Is Good for the Planet? Not So Fast
Despite hopes that ride hailing would ease traffic and reduce carbon emissions, a new study finds that it’s actually driving them upward.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Sea Is Getting Warmer. Will the Shrimp Get Louder?
The snapping shrimp’s claws pop louder than gunshots. Rising temperatures could make them fire faster—and disrupt their undersea neighbors.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Recycled Nuclear Waste Will Power a New Reactor
Last week, the Department of Energy gave a commercial company the green light to test fuel made from spent uranium.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Australia’s Bushfires Completely Blasted Through the Models
The wildfires weren’t just unprecedented—scientists didn’t think such catastrophic conflagrations would happen until the end of this century.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Family Farms Try to Raise a New Cash Cow: Solar Power
A ‘solar sharing’ pilot project in Colorado is testing whether farmers can profit from growing vegetables and harvesting green energy on the same plot.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ‘Environmental DNA’ Lets Scientists Probe Underwater Life
With the help of a new kind of drone, marine biologists can sequence DNA found in the ocean to reveal what’s living in an ecosystem—and what’s missing.