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Louisiana accounted for nearly one-sixth of the nation's oil-refining capacity and shipped 63% of its liquefied natural gas exports in 2022. Adbar/Wikimedia, CC BY

Billions of federal tax dollars will soon be pouring into Louisiana to fight climate change,

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Healthy corals like these on Australia's Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is not curbed. Rebecca Spindler, CC BY-ND

Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and among the most valuable. They

Read more …As climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to...

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Dig into soil and you'll find rock dust but also thousands of living species. ChristinLola/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to

Read more …What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the ground beneath our feet, as a soil...

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Extreme fires leave forests struggling to recover in a warming world. Mark Kreider

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly

Read more …Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to...

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