Climate change poses a more serious threat to firefly populations than previously thought, researchers have found.
Every year in late June, Peggy Butler and her husband, Ken, welcome visitors to rural northwestern Pennsylvania for the chance to glimpse the rare and beguiling Photinus carolinus. This firefly species flashes synchronously, creating dazzling spectacles of light. The abundance of fireflies on their property in Forest County—there are at least 17 species in addition to the synchronous firefly—led the Butlers to found the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival.
A company has proposed to build a crude oil pipeline crossing the Canadian border near where the long-contested project would have entered the United States.
No project better embodies the nation’s wild swings in climate and energy policy than the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says
A team including scientists, Indigenous people and conservationists point to the ecosystem connecting Yellowstone and the Yukon as an example of a region where humans and nature are flourishing together.
Governments cannot reach their climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth.
Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says
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A new Swedish study focuses on very high levels of PFAS exposure in drinking water.
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