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Older people are especially vulnerable to the dangers of heat—but a new study surprisingly finds that young people are falling…

A new work pulls together 485 climate change studies into a global estimate of how the threat increases as average…

What do squid bones and cotton fibers have to do with one another? Perhaps the future of microplastics cleanup.

A sophisticated model has weighed the effects of the most common proposals, finding that a combination of four strategies could…

Public health agencies warn that if it’s too hot, the blowing air can actually make things worse by acting like…

From 2001 to 2020, the average peak daily growth rate for these fires more than doubled (+249% relative to 2001)…

PFAS, known colloquially as “forever chemicals”, have been associated with adverse human health effects and have contaminated drinking water supplies.

Many species are declining as a result of expanding cities, as well as a rapidly changing climate.

"Science" talks with a pair of biologists about why microbes—even pernicious ones—are worthy of conservation.

In places where bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticides, and baby mortality spiked.