Environment What Did the Hottest Year on Record Mean for the Midwest? The Midwest’s warm and soggy winter weather. Susan Cosier
Environment Would You Like Flies With That? New research suggests obfuscation may be the best way to get Westerners to eat insect-based foods. Tom Jacobs
Environment A Better Way to Clean Up Ocean-Polluting Plastics Hint: Don't go after the Great Pacific garbage patch—which, by the way, isn't really a patch at all. Nathan Collins
Environment It’s the End of the Beginning of the End for Coal The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land. The coal industry may never recover. Brian Palmer
Environment In Abu Dhabi, a Bold Plan to Realize the Paris Agreement The International Renewable Energy Agency's sixth annual meeting this weekend in Abu Dhabi laid out an ambitious path for doubling renewables as a way to meet mitigation goals—and to create millions of new jobs. Ted Scheinman
Environment It’s Wikipedia’s Birthday In honor of the free encyclopedia's birthday, here's our coverage from the past few years. Allison Shapiro
Environment The Rise of the Trash-Picker Collective, in Latin America and Beyond Millions around the world are improving their financial lot by sifting recycling—and they're saving their towns in the process. Vanessa Hua
Environment Saving the Climate Requires Saving Forests Forest conservation is crucial to climate change mitigation. But do we have any idea how to do it? Brian Palmer
Environment Russian Mammoth Pushes Back the Timeline for Humans in the Arctic Evidence shows humans killed the mammoth deep in the Arctic—45,000 years ago. Nathan Collins
Environment Go Ahead, Crowdsource Your Symptoms Online health forums actually provide decent information, according to a new study. Elena Gooray