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Posted on November 25, 2024

COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing Countries, but Not Who

Rich countries have agreed to pay developing nations $300 billion a year to help them with their climate actions—but the agreement doesn’t say who specifically should contribute or how.
Posted on November 23, 2024

How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production

Donald Trump will have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations too.
Posted on November 15, 2024

What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA

What to expect from Donald Trump’s EPA pick: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.
Posted on November 11, 2024

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.
Posted on November 10, 2024

Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse

Microplastics cause clouds to form in places where they wouldn't otherwise, which is likely to have knock-on effects on the weather and climate.
Posted on November 9, 2024

Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water

Zebra mussels, hydrilla, and now a water flea have made their homes in New Croton Reservoir.
Posted on November 2, 2024

How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.
Posted on October 25, 2024

OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion

A US Attorney's office is investigating the company behind the doomed expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, sources tell WIRED, even as a civil suit is already underway.
Posted on October 24, 2024

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

Plantix started with the mission of making farming more environmentally friendly. So how did it end up selling the very products it wanted to fight against?
Posted on October 19, 2024

Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics

New research highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how nonhuman species, including dolphins, are exposed.

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