Environment

From deforestation to pollution, environmental challenges are growing—but so are the solutions. Our environment coverage explores the world’s environmental issues through stories on groundbreaking research and inspiring individuals making a difference for our planet.

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Recent stories in Environment: How Volcanoes Helped Forge America’s Newest National Park; Searching the Seabed for Florida’s Ice Age Societies; As Lake Powell Dries Up, Mud Threatens Its Future; Tourist Trash Has Done Weird Things to Yellowstone's Thermal Pools; This Toad Is Fighting for Survival—and It Has a Lawyer; Solar Panels That Plug Into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere; A Pacific 'Blob' Is Pulsing Up the West Coast. Here's What's to Expect.; Going Off the Grid to Deal With Climate Disasters; Why Are All the Hurricanes Forming Out West This Year?; What Does It Take to Move 2,000 Rhinos?; Can This Bone-Eating Bird Be Saved?; The Huge Impact of Africa’s Teeny-Tiny Crocs; Discovering Where the Nile Really Starts; A Surprising New Way to Protect Mountain Gorillas; Can This Army of Drones Solve the West’s Water Crisis?; The Push To Get Polluters To Pay For Nepal's Floods; See How Much Corals Have Declined in Just 40 Years; Fighting to Save the Pangolin, the World’s Most Wanted Animal; Inside the Longshot Experiment to Resurrect Elm Trees—With the Disease That Decimated Them; Canada Has a New Forested Floating Island. Scientists Think It Used to Have Many More.; How Wildfire Is Erasing the Forests of the American West; Revealing an Oasis at the Top of the World; Nepal’s Glaciers Will Flood Again. Can Scientists Predict the Next One?; Inside the Geode as Big as a Garage; The Alaska Man Saving His House Inch by Inch From a Cliff