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The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute formed 55 years ago. Now, alumni and others are keeping the environmental organization going a year after the Ashland college shuttered. Rose Brown, left, 14, ...

The key problem facing those celebrating Earth Day this year isn’t climate change, species extinction or water scarcity. The challenge is how to make environmental stewardship less reliant on the ...

California voters will face a number of high-stakes races this November, including choosing a governor and helping decide control of Congress. They are also heading toward a major showdown over one of ...

Judging by my inbox, there’s a misapprehension about how to deal with Iran among many supporters of the “finish the job” line of thinking. They contend that the choice between continuing or ending the ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's ReSTIR PT Enhanced advances real-time path tracing by using Generalized Resampled Importance Sampling to improve lighting sample reuse, doubling performance while enhancing image ...

The Trump administration began this week to radically alter how the National Environmental Policy Act is implemented across the federal government, alarming environmentalists. Passed in 1970 and often ...

A meeting of G7 nations on the environment begins in Paris on Thursday but climate change has been left off the agenda to avoid a row with the United States. The office of France's ecology minister ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. And today, in honor of Earth Day, we’re going to talk about why you should actually be excited about our planet’s ...

Earth Day is a relatively new concept at only 56 years since its inception. But the push to raise awareness about the fragility of our ecosystem has made incredible strides in that time, leading to ...

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