Climate & Environment

Seafood is often falsely labeled, but a handheld device can tell tuna from tilapia in seconds

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China has successfully landed its rover on Mars, according to state media, becoming the second country in history to have a rover on the red planet.

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — When the pandemic struck last year, oyster farmer Chris Burtis soon realized the restaurants that bought his oysters had mostly closed. Without a new market, his Ferda Farms faced potential economic ruin.

New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes.

Engineers are almost done building and testing the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Here's the surprising reason it lingers.

It’s no Rocky Mountain myth: We love our Subarus.  Colorado buys more than twice as many of the four-wheel-drive, Fido-friendly gear wagons as people in other states, according to the latest quarterly registration numbers for state vehicle sales.  And we are moving fast toward electric vehicles, if you judge by percentage growth in the raw […]

Previous droughts motivated the greater Los Angeles region to build new storage and create lasting conservation habits. But vulnerabilities still remain.

The Apollo 11 astronaut is famous for orbiting the moon in solitude.

Leading experts assess what they see as the likely moves

In an important test, the ARRW missile didn't launch from the B-52 bomber carrying it.

OkCupid releases first-ever Climate Change Advocate Badge & Stack as data reveals it’s a leading issue to millennial daters

And how to stay safe in them this summer

La Soufrière, on the main island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, last erupted in 1979, but recent activity had alarmed disaster management officials, who urged residents to evacuate.

Amazing details about the buzzing insects set to storm the United States this spring

The diamond pattern, or quilting, that you see on the back of truck trailers is there for a reason — and a clever one at that.

The buds are coming out on the trees, the sun is shining, and birds are chirping outside my window. It’s a stupidly perfect day, and I had to go ruin it all by watching Seaspiracy.

In the 35 years that Mike Lester has worked as a forester, nothing compares to the East Troublesome fire’s behavior last week. Its 105,000-acre jump from Wednesday night into Thursday alone would classify as the fifth-largest wildfire in recorded state history; the fire as a whole is now the second-largest. “I’ve never heard of something […]

Unsafe boating activity, delays to environmental projects and changes in public policy are putting the gentle giants at risk

‘No longer safe to be anywhere near Piney Point’, says official of former plant where millions of gallons of wastewater could leak

As the pandemic has brought home the importance of the global movement for food sovereignty, members are planting and sharing.

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Listen to this episode from Axios Re:Cap on Spotify. This fall, the Inspiration4 mission, chartered from SpaceX, will take four people into space who are not trained astronauts — and as of today, the full crew has been announced.  Producer Naomi Shavin and author of Axios Space Miriam Kramer discuss this unusual mission, which will carry the hopes of the entire space industry with it when it takes off in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices