Last December a surprise storm passed through Florida’s Pinellas Countygo777, ripping away beaches and wiping out half of the sand dunes from St. Petersburg to Clearwater. The damage was extensive, an...

In his 1937 book, “Kennebec: Cradle of Americansphrich,” the poet Robert Tristram Coffin called Maine’s sprawling river a “paradise for fish.” But pollution and dams that block spawning runs for Atlan...

August is spider season. The orb-weaver spiders in my yard spend winter tucked away in the egg sacs their mothers made for them in autumn. Come springtime, the spiderlings climb out of their egg sacs ...

The organizers of the Paris Olympic Games have outdone their predecessors in trying to make the Games the most sustainable in the decades since climate change became a concern. But with an estimated 1...

Bertide Horace, a community leader in central Haiti, was awoken in the wee hours last Thursday by a phone call from a woman who sounded desperate. “Pont-Sondé is being invaded by the gang, please send...

The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway dwindling to shallow pools ...

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Humberto Ortega Saavedra, the former chief of the armed forces of Nicaragua and the current president’s younger brother, who publicly questioned his sibling’s “dictatorial” rule, only to wind up under...

Call it the Axis of Anger.kawbet It is ripped from the pages of the World Wars or the Cold War: a coalition of powers working to strengthen one another’s militaries to defeat America’s partners and, b...

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