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PostJune 8, 2025

Crop insurance costs taxpayers billions. But it only benefits big farms and...

A person in a blue shirt and a baseball cap looks at a tractor that's installing fenceposts in a field.

PostJune 1, 2025

Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.

A view from ground-level of a cornfield with rain clouds passing overhead and wind turbines in the background.

PostApril 26, 2025

As climate change pushes dry weather east, striking changes are coming to D...

A truck and house destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek Fire are seen, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Stinnett, Texas. The wildfire became the largest in state history at over one million acres. Climatologists believe wildfires will become more common as global temperatures warm

PostApril 11, 2025

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scient...

For the coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years — or more often — by the end of the century, scientists report. In this photo, a Bangladeshi woman and child walk over the top of a sandbag embankment in Khulna on May 4, 2019.

PodcastMarch 20, 2025

E3: Did climate change do that?

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PostOctober 23, 2024

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

Graduate student Ernie I. H. Lee uses drone imaging and machine learning to help map salt marsh species, plant height, and shoots per bed area.

PostApril 4, 2024

The heat is on: Accelerating climate action at a time of record-breaking te...

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PodcastApril 4, 2024

E2: Do wind turbines freeze up in the cold?

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PostMarch 26, 2024

Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce...

An MIT team is hoping to fortify coastlines with “architected” reefs — sustainable, offshore structures that are engineered to mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while also providing pockets for fish and other marine life to live.

PostMarch 22, 2024

A new way to quantify climate change impacts: “Outdoor days”

A new measure of rising temperatures, called “outdoor days,” describes the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for people to go about normal outdoor activities, whether work or leisure, in reasonable comfort.

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