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The tiny lizard that will test Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda

While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration...

10.02.2025 2

Vox

Benji Jones

The far right is going … green?

“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.”  “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that...

04.02.2025 2

Vox

Benji Jones

Florida’s iconic corals aren’t having babies anymore. Scientists are alarmed.

Once a year, typically after sunset in the late summer, the coral baby-making process begins. Large colonies of coral spawn, spewing out sperm and...

04.02.2025 10

Vox

Benji Jones

Get ready: Your city’s rat problem is likely going to get a lot worse

If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up...

31.01.2025 6

Vox

Benji Jones

RFK Jr. and the new far-right environmentalist

“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.”  “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that...

28.01.2025 9

Vox

Benji Jones

Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?

As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate, or...

10.01.2025 30

Vox

Benji Jones

Why thousands of people are traveling to one country to see these birds

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month,...

03.01.2025 6

Vox

Benji Jones

The adorable reason why all of Amy Sedaris’s stuff has holes in it

Amy Sedaris has a lovely apartment in the desirable Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, though she has often described it as a hutch....

24.12.2024 9

Vox

Benji Jones

This is how many animals could go extinct from climate change 

05.12.2024 4

Vox

Benji Jones

¿Por qué miles de personas viajan a un país para ver sus aves?

04.12.2024 3

Vox

Benji Jones

These metal chambers measure burps and farts. For science.

02.12.2024 81000

Vox

Benji Jones

Scientists just discovered a sea creature as large as two basketball courts. Here’s what it looks like.

14.11.2024 81000

Vox

Benji Jones

A groundbreaking new plan to get Big Pharma to pay for wildlife conservation

02.11.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US.

23.10.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

The most important event you’ve never heard of, explained

21.10.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

We need $700 billion to save nature

17.10.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

Hurricane Milton slams Florida: What you need to know

10.10.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

A new report reveals “catastrophic” declines of animals worldwide — but is it accurate?

10.10.2024 81000

Vox

Benji Jones

This awkward fish works harder than you

08.10.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

How Hurricane Milton exploded into a terrifying Category 5 storm in just hours

07.10.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

What’s going on in Asheville? The devastating fallout from Hurricane Helene, explained.

30.09.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

Weather radar showed a strange blue mass in the eye of Hurricane Helene. What was it?

27.09.2024 9

Vox

Benji Jones

One chart shows how Hurricane Helene could turn into a monstrous storm

25.09.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

The extremely messy, profoundly confusing fight over who should profit from animal DNA

20.09.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

Are bugs really disappearing?

18.09.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

The remarkable reason why these bugs are seeking out devastating wildfires

14.09.2024 81000

Vox

Benji Jones

The astonishing link between bats and the deaths of human babies

05.09.2024 1

Vox

Benji Jones

Coral Reefs Are Getting Sick, and This Human Medicine Might Help

Stony coral tissue loss disease is destroying reefs. P. Sutter/DPA/ZUMA This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as...

03.09.2024 3

Mother Jones

Benji Jones

What the heck is “corn sweat” and is it making the Midwest more dangerous?

29.08.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones

These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?

28.08.2024 81000

Vox

Benji Jones

This chart of ocean heat is terrifying

23.08.2024 80500

Vox

Benji Jones

This coral reef has given scientists hope for years. Now they’re worried. 

19.08.2024 2

Vox

Benji Jones