Konrad Kozaczuk/Shutterstock I recently found myself among a group of alarmed scientists, writing a fervent plea to the European Commission to be more ambitious when…
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is once again shrouding parts of the United States — cities like Chicago and Milwaukee — with unhealthy air, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Parts of the plume have reached as far as Europe. The bulk of the smoke is forecasted to drift eastward across North America and […]
oleg_aryutkin/Shutterstock Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth’s surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act…