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  1. The Best Time to Plant Peppers (So You Don’t Miss Your Growing Window)

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:58:00 -0000

    Key Takeaways Start pepper seeds indoors six to eight weeks before your last frost date. Transplant outdoors once nighttime temperatures stay above 55°F. Keep seedlings at 70–75°F and harden them off gradually before planting outside. Unless you have a large sunroom dedicated to just your plants (isn't …

  2. Trump Is Attacking Climate Science. Scientists Are Fighting Back.

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps. For …

  3. 10 Scientific Theories That Were Once Considered Absurd But Are Now Accepted Truths

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:15:00 -0000

    Science has never been a straight road. It twists, doubles back on itself, and sometimes drives straight off a cliff before someone comes along and …

  4. The Best Time to Plant Peppers (So You Don’t Miss Your Growing Window)

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:58:00 -0000

    Unless you have a large sunroom dedicated to just your plants (isn't that the dream?), chances are you have to be a little selective about which ones …

  5. Trump Environmental Decision Hurts American Health

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:52:49 -0000

    Several decisions show that the end of EPA regulations poses a risk to the health of millions of Americans. Douglas A. McIntyre, Editor-In-Chief of …

  6. Air Pollution Is Wreaking Havoc on Ants, And The Effects Are Alarming

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:22 -0000

    Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons. Human air pollution, a …

  7. Will El Niño Finally Return in 2026?

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Key Points El Niño brings bigger surf to US West Coast; La Niña means less consistent swells. • El Niño development in 2026 has a 50-60% chance, but …

  8. Winter is ending, but the polar vortex is still in March's forecast

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:03:23 -0000

    The infamous weather pattern is actually partly influencing our weather as February ends. And it may again throughout the month of March. Hello spring? The weather forecast is looking promising for warmer weather as the calendar turns to March. In the East, a dramatic warm-up is in the forecast, and …

  9. 19 U.S. Cities Now Seeing Annual Flooding Events

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:23:41 -0000

    Did you know that in 2025, nearly 20 major American cities are now grappling with flooding events every single year? What once used to be rare, …

  10. How Trump’s War Could Destabilize the Global Energy Market

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:42:17 -0000

    It starts — but doesn’t end — with the Strait of Hormuz. For the second time in a year, the United States and Israel have launched a major aerial …

  11. You Should Never Grow Bamboo in Your Yard, Experts Warn—Here's Why

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:05:00 -0000

    More than 14-hundred species of bamboo in more than 90 genera are found around the globe. These members of the grass family are classified into two …

  12. North Carolina’s opaque national forests are about to get even more secretive

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    In 1910, the father of American forestry got canned.Gifford Pinchot had developed his ideas in the woods of the Biltmore Estate, founded the Yale …

  13. The world’s largest desert is enormous and there’s hardly any rain – but it’s not hot. Here’s why

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:44:00 -0000

    The largest desert in the world isn't where you think it might be... When most people think of the word desert, a hot, sand-covered expanse usually …

  14. Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:00:00 -0000

    Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more controversy than glyphosate. The world’s most used weed killer, glyphosate is perhaps better …

  15. A new type of geothermal energy found in desert southwest

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:39:04 -0000

    The discovery in the Nevada desert could make a big difference to consumers in the future.

  16. Groundbreaking New Battery Technology Just Broke The Voltage Barrier

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:17:00 -0000

    We've seen a lot of different attempts to come up with more efficient designs for batteries over the years (including the groundbreaking EV solid …

  17. When floods hit, the risk of malaria follows: how disaster systems can prepare better

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:56:44 -0000

    When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families …

  18. Officials weigh drastic action as US region faces water supply crisis: 'We're approaching really dangerously low levels'

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:00:00 -0000

    After heavy rains pounded Central Texas over the summer, many believed the state's drought was over. However, officials are on the verge of making an …

  19. Are ‘Climate Hushers’ Lurking in the Democratic Party?

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:50:00 -0000

    A push to emphasize affordability isn’t climate hushing, its advocates say. But a Democratic think tank has suggested this recalibration is in …

  20. Here's how much firefighters make in every US state

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:27:09 -0000

    Every day, firefighters in communities across the US risk their lives responding to emergencies. And in the age of worsening wildfires driven by the climate crisis, their jobs have become more important than ever. So how does pay correlate to such a key job? As we'll see below, firefighter wages …

  21. The Middle East War Will Cause Billions In Environmental Damage

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:47:08 -0000

    If other recent wars are any example, the financial fallout is in the billions of dollars. This includes direct damage to the local environment and …

  22. Helping Trees—and a City—Outrace Climate Change

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Arborists and land managers are trying “assisted migration” as global warming threatens livability in communities and the health of urban and rural …

  23. Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:40:02 -0000

    Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its …

  24. Scientists change how El Nino cycle is labeled

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:25:54 -0000

    WASHINGTON — The natural El Nino cycle, which warps weather worldwide, is adding to and shaped by a warming world, meteorologists said.

  25. The Story We Tell About Energy Will Determine Its Future

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    There’s a fight underway about how to characterize this moment in energy and climate. Depending on who you ask, we’re living through an era of energy security, energy addition, or climate realism. The long-standing phrase energy transition remains operative for much of the world—though others …

  26. Mark Gongloff: El Niño is returning with another stark warning

    Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:37:53 -0000

    A science-fiction trope is the time traveler who visits the present day with a dire warning about the future only to be tragically ignored. It …

  27. Court orders Greenpeace to pay $345 mn to US oil pipeline company

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:24:47 -0000

    Greenpeace must pay $345 million in damages to the operator of the US oil pipeline it protested, a North Dakota court ordered Friday. The decision …

  28. Climate change forces facelift for Michelangelo masterpiece

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:33:00 -0000

    Michelangelo's famous The Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel is getting its biggest facelift in more than three decades to remove a light …

  29. Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:28:17 -0000

    The Trump administration’s relentless rollback of public health and environmental protections has allowed widespread toxic exposures to flourish, …

  30. Man urges people to eat from plant spreading rapidly in US: 'I could literally eat this ... every day'

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:19:01 -0000

    Eating these greens is good for your health and your local ecosystem.If you're looking to chow down on some veggies, an invasive species probably …