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The suburbs are getting a makeover. That’s a climate win. » Yale Climate Connections

Across the U.S., communities are transforming aging malls, golf courses, and parking lots into walkable neighborhoods that reduce car dependency and help residents adapt to extreme weather.

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Hope Village provides climate-resilient housing to vulnerable residents » Yale Climate Connections

The village was built using an affordable, modular system called LifeArk.

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As War Roils Energy Markets, China Sees Its Emissions Drop

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Ozone Hole Reaches Its 2026 Maximum - NASA Science

The ozone hole ranked seventh largest by area in 48 years of monitoring, but it was not as deep as other large holes on record.

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The Standing Rock protests launched one man’s renewable energy transformation » Yale Climate Connections

Ten years after the protest, Cody Two Bears reflects on how it led him to create energy alternatives for tribal communities.

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Crows can make decisions twice as fast as humans, scientists discover

Crows may be even smarter than we thought, and their brains are astonishingly fast. Researchers at the University of Tübingen discovered that crows can make visual decisions twice as quickly as humans and monkeys, taking just 235 milliseconds on average to identify the direction of moving dots while maintaining remarkable accuracy.

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Study of Nearly 27,000 Men Is The Largest Yet on Tight Underwear And Sperm Quality

The largest study of its kind has now found that wearing tight underwear really is linked to poorer sperm quality.

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Regional science summit emphasizes role of environmental surveyors

Some of Ohio’s most unsung heroes are environmental surveyors, said Rick Gardner, chief botanist of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of ...

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Despite a 1960 doomsday prediction, the world won't end today

In 1960, three scientists predicted that the world would end on November 13, 2026, due to overpopulation. Here's why they were wrong.

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Toothbrush zaps bacteria with electricity that’s made when bristles move

Innovative polymer could give the manual toothbrush its first radical redesign in more than 1,000 years.

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Shine Bright for Voyager’s Light‑Day - NASA Science

Use our Automated “V-G-R” Flasher to send your signal to Voyager, or if you want to try Morse code yourself, see our “Shine Bright” Step-by-Step instructions

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Healthy diet during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of infant colic, eczema | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Infants born to mothers who ate a healthy, Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy were at lower risk for colic and eczema, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

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‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists

Patroclo and Achille’s interspecies affair sheds new light on social and sexual relations between animals, scientists say

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Large Hadron Collider reveals evidence of Big Bang matter in surprisingly small collisions

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have uncovered compelling new evidence that even relatively small atomic collisions can recreate the extraordinary state of matter that filled the universe moments after the Big Bang. Known as quark-gluon plasma, this exotic substance forms at temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun, causing ordinary particles to break apart into their fundamental building blocks.

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How This Year's Super El Niño Will Worsen Global Hunger

A monster El Niño is nearing its peak, deepening drought in many parts of the world. Coming as countries slash foreign aid and war chokes supplies of energy and fertilizer, the climate phenomenon could leave millions more people in vulnerable countries without enough to eat.

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Vineyard Wind, the country's largest offshore wind project, is fully up and running

After more than eight years in the making, the Vineyard Wind project near Martha's Vineyard is fully operational. The news comes just hours after another offshore wind project in the region, Revolution Wind, announced it had reached full power.