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Dead Bear Walking

Will “walking hibernation” help polars bears survive climate change?

How Petcoke Stacks Up

Aerial images show just how big Chicago’s toxic dust mountains really are.

NIMBY By Any Other Name

Light-rail proponents in Maryland just won support from their Republican governor. Why is a self-styled “environmental” group standing in their way?

Take It or Leave It

A state-by-state breakdown of who is more frugal with their resources and who is in ecological debt.

If You Don’t Use Your Bones, You Lose Them—Unless You’re a Hibernating Bear

A weekly roundup of the best in science journalism, doodled.

Land Shark...

Plus one for humanity! Beachgoers rescue a stranded great white on Cape Cod.