This Hurricane Season Is Unprecedented
A very strange climate drove Hurricane Idalia. Scientists can’t predict whether more storms like it are coming.
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Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard
The most effective way to increase vaccine uptake is to make getting shots easy. So why aren’t we doing that?
The Most Believable Reality TV Is Set on Mars
Stars on Mars—a show about celebrities solving made-up problems in space—gets one thing about astronaut missions very, very right.
America Is Finally Spilling Its Shipwreck Secrets
Historic shipwrecks are under threat from scallop nets. The first step is telling fishermen where they are.
Is Salsa Gazpacho?
Is gazpacho salsa?
What Happens When the Heat Repeats?
Two years later, the intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest coast is still recovering from a devastating heat wave.
Islands Have a Disaster-Response Problem
What Puerto Rico portends for Maui
Don’t Underestimate the Japanese Beetle
America is playing whack-a-beetle with crop-eating pests.
Maui’s Fire Risk Was Glowing Red
Unprecedented disasters are not unpredictable.
Give Invasive Species a Job
Wild horses could play a role in preventing wildfires, if we only gave them a chance.