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10 Reusable Gifts for Your Eco-Friendliest Friend

Disposable tea bags can't compete with this pla-tea-pus and his friends.

10 Reusable Gifts for Your Eco-Friendliest Friend

What Exactly Is a Gigafire?

Wildfires have reached historic proportions this year.

What Exactly Is a Gigafire?

Which Places Should We Protect First to Stop Climate Change? This Interactive Map Tells You

A look at the Global Safety Net's online map application.

Which Places Should We Protect First to Stop Climate Change? This Interactive Map Tells You

Smoke From the West Coast Wildfires Has Been Reported As Far Away As the Netherlands

Smoke fills the sky on Harbor Island in Seattle, Washington on September 12, 2020.

Smoke From the West Coast Wildfires Has Been Reported As Far Away As the Netherlands

5 Ways to Help Victims of the West Coast’s Wildfires

A wildfire near Shaver Lake, California, earlier this month.

It Was 130 Degrees in Death Valley This Weekend—Likely the Hottest Temperature Recorded on Earth Since 1913

Death Valley National Park in California.

Climate Change vs. Global Warming: What's the Difference?

NASA captures a high altitude view of Alaska's Icy Bay in the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. Just a century ago, this body of water was covered in ice.

The Home of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault Just Had Its Hottest Day Ever

Frode Ramone, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

What a Whopper: Burger King’s New Commercial About Cow Farts Has Farmers Angry

A Burger King ad about cow farts is drawing controversy.

Vermont Just Banned Residents From Throwing Food Scraps in the Trash

Compost is delicious trash salad for your soil.

Expeditions Gather Climate Change Clues on Mount Everest in Two New Documentaries

Team members climb up a slope during the expedition to find Sandy Irvine's remains on Mount Everest.

It Was 100 Degrees in Siberia This Weekend—The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic

A "Pole of Cold" monument commemorating Verkhoyansk as one of the coldest places on Earth.

A Massive Volcanic Eruption in Alaska May Have Doomed the Roman Republic

Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Penguin Poop Makes So Much Laughing Gas That Scientists Studying It Go ‘Completely Cuckoo’

Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

10 Eco-Friendly Products for a More Sustainable Lifestyle

These eco-friendly products will help you live a more sustainable life.

14 Incredible Scientific Discoveries of the Decade

NASA // Public Domain