Daily meditation may work as well as a popular drug to calm anxiety, study finds
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It’s not all bad news: Wonderful and wild stories about tackling climate change
News about climate change can be overwhelming. As NPR’s climate solutions reporter Julia...
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The new world’s hottest pepper, Pepper X, is 3 times spicier than its predecessor
A small, wrinkly yellow-green pepper known as Pepper X is now officially the hottest chili pepper...
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Exxon minimized climate change internally after conceding that fossil fuels cause it
Executives at ExxonMobil continued in recent years to raise doubts internally about the dangers of...
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Innovators share what helped convince them to take climate action
Humans are driving climate change. And that means we humans can find solutions to change the...
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El Niño plus climate change means record-breaking heat
It is very hot in a lot of places right now. It’s over 100 degrees in cities across China....
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There are plenty of doomsday climate stories — ‘Extrapolations’ is about the everyday
In some ways, Extrapolations is typical eco-thriller fare. The Apple TV+ series depicts...
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Climate change and a population boom could dry up the Great Salt Lake in 5 years
Trekking along the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake — the largest remaining saltwater lake in the...
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The ozone layer is on track to recover in the coming decades, the United Nations says
The Earth’s ozone layer is on its way to recovering, thanks to decades of work to get rid of...
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Have you made your New Year’s climate resolution yet?
Many people are focusing on how to reduce their carbon footprint for next year — such as taking...
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Climate change makes storms like Ian more common
Hurricane Ian was just shy of a Category 5 hurricane when it barreled into Florida. The wind was...
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Tonga’s volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth
The violent eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano injected an...
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Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change
Editor’s note: As the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Summit convenes, NPR’s Picture Show is...
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The Week That Shook Big Oil
This week’s news was nothing short of astonishing. A court in the Netherlands issued...
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Trees Talk To Each Other. ‘Mother Tree’ Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too
Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own...
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How Absentee Landowners Keep Farmers From Protecting Water And Soil
Lisa Schulte Moore loves nature. To stand in an old-growth forest, she says, “I can only...
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Florida farmers selling directly to consumers to avoid produce dumps
Florida farmers To help ease the pain of lost revenue due to the steep drop in demand, farmers are...
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Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic
Since COVID-19 has much of the Navajo Nation stuck at home, farmer Tyrone Thompson says it’s...
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