Survivors stay in their damaged house after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines.
Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Typhoon Haiyan

Surviving typhoons will require smarter building — and a cultural shift

Image: TRMM imagery of typhoon
Hal Pierce / SSAI / NASA
Cosmic Log

Typhoon Haiyan pushed the limit, but bigger storms are coming

Image of beetle-killed trees
Jen Chase / Colorado State Forest Service vi
energy

Beetle juice? Trees killed by bugs eyed as biofuel for cars

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Wild bottlenose dolphins play off the bow of a sportfishing boat Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, off the Florida Keys near Islamorada, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Ke...
Michael Newman / Florida Keys News Bureau via AP
Dolphins

Dolphin-killing virus reaches Florida, and is infecting whales, too

Storm damage in Breezy Point, NY
John Makely / NBC News
Climate change

It's time to adapt to unstoppable global warming, scientists say

Image of bay cat
Oliver Wearn / SAFE Project
Environment

Elusive rare cats caught on camera lurking in logged forest

Motorists maneuver through floodwaters following monsoon rains
Bullit Marquez / AP
Environment

'Crazy' climate re-engineering could reduce vital rains, study says

This picture taken on December 9, 2012 shows scavengers picking up useful construction waste from a garbage dump in Hefei, central China's Anhui provi...
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Environment

Humans on course to triple daily waste by 2100

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Matt Rourke / AP
heat-wave

Weather pattern could provide early warning for catastrophic U.S. heat waves

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NASA
ozone

Southern ozone hole slightly smaller this year

artic temps
Gifford Miller
Arctic

Arctic temperatures at 44,000-year high

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Image: Orca
Rob Williams
whales

Shipping lanes are getting too noisy for the whales, coastal survey shows

Image: Plankton
Paul Jones / Deakin U.
Environment

Cold-water fish food not adapting to a warming world, study says

A cow attached to an experimental "backpack" device that harnesses greenhouse gas emissions, seen in the laboratories of Argentina's Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA).
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria - Argentina
cows

Scientists tap cow burps for natural gas

Image: "Essence of Elephants"
Greg du Toit / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Cosmic Log

Wildlife photographer captures elephants — and wins a prize

Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, in an undated law enforcement photo, turned herself in at the Canada-Washington border in November 2012 after a decade as a fugitive
AP
Science

Radical environmentalist pleads guilty to arson in Western fires

Coral reef ecosystem in Indonesia
eoki Stender / Marinelifephotography.com
Environment

'Uncomfortable' climates to devastate cities within a decade, study says

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A diver swims near a school of giant jellyfish each nearly 1 meter in diameter in the Sea of Japan off the town of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, in Oct. ...
KYODO via AP file
jellyfish

The jellyfish are coming! Experts tangle with exploding population

Image: Conehead katydid
Piotr Naskrecki / Conservation International
Cosmic Log

Scientists discover scores of species in Suriname's 'Tropical Eden'

Officials examine a dead bottlenose dolphin that washed ashore on the Long Island, New York shoreline in this August 9, 2013 file handout photo courte...
James Sullivan / Reuters
Bottlenose dolphins

As dolphin die-off nears record high, shutdown puts investigation on ice

Image: Asian giant hornet queens
Devon Henderson / Addicted2Hymenoptera via Flickr
hornets

China struggles to control attacks by giant killer hornets

Alaska

Thousands of walruses congregate in Alaska

Image: Earthquake island
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geology

Satellites reveal new views of Pakistan's 'Earthquake Island' 

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Climate change

Politicians, activists plead for emissions cuts in wake of climate report

A view of a coal-burning power plant during daybreak in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei province, June 25, 2006. China has a key role to play in the d...
Reuters file / Reuters
Environment

Top scientists urge cap on carbon emissions to limit climate change

A view of a coal-burning power plant in central China
Reuters file / Reuters
Environment

Final verdict coming on Friday: Humans caused global warming

The Chiew Lam Reservoir is surrounded by rainforest, and dotted with more than a hundred forested islands.
Anthony Lynam
rainforests

Man-made jungle islands spell extinction for the smallest critters

So-called "flushable" wipes are clogging up sewer systems around the country. Rob Villee, executive director of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewer Authority in New Jersey, holds up a wipe he flushed through his test toilet in his office.
Julio Cortez / AP
Consumer

What a bummer! 'Flushable' wipes blamed for sewer woes

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Scott Olson / Getty Images
Environment

Warming planet could spawn bigger, badder thunderstorms

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This photo taken on August 11, 2011 shows a coal fired power station in Huaibei, in east China's Anhui province. Beijing has stepped up investment in...
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Environment

Greenhouse gas reduction could prevent millions of premature deaths

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Screenshot - Hawaii News Now
Environment

Molasses spill suffocating Hawaiian reef fish

The Obama administration unveiled new regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power ...
Charlie Riedel / AP file
energy

EPA sets first-ever curbs on power plant pollution

Science

Get an inside look at the world’s only underwater lab

Image of a coal plant in Europe
Peter Andrews / Reuters
Environment

Nation-to-nation peer pressure may be best hope for global climate deal

A rescue worker in Boulder rains
RJ Sangosti / Denver Post
Environment

Colorado floods triggered by convergence of geography and climate, experts say

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Beats taking the subway. Starfleet officers beam to their destination via the USS Enterprise's transporter on "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
Paramount Television
quantum-mechanics

Beam me up: Bits of information teleported across computer chip

An environmental cleanup crew scoops a dead eel out of Keehi Lagoon after a massive molasses spill from a Matson cargo ship in Honolulu, Hawaii, Septe...
Hugh Gentry / Reuters
molasses-spill

Lingering Hawaii molasses spill will create sticky situation for marine life

This photograph made in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, shows pages from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Office of Law Enforcement document obtained w...
J. David Ake / AP
eagles

Wind farms killed at least 67 eagles in last five years

Indonesians buy staple foods as vendors mind their stalls at a traditional street market in Jakarta on Jan. 3.
BAY ISMOYO / AFP - Getty Images
Tips

Third biggest greenhouse gas emitter? World's wasted food

water

New source of water discovered in Kenya

Image of a black rhino.
Cambridge Consultants
Environment

Covert satellite cams may catch animal poachers in the crosshairs