"The three 6-year-old girls stood on the sidelines as their coach swabbed their hands. Then they ran onto a lush green turf field and played soccer for 90 minutes straight — no stepping off the pitch. This wasn’t just a practice. It was part of a small experiment conducted in the suburban foothills of San Diego last summer."

"In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium."

"How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?"

"Hundreds of millions of farmed salmon have perished in mass die-offs over the past decade, say researchers."

"The plan to bring back the woolly mammoth — or at least a version of it — is ambitious but raises hairy questions".

"EPA’s internal watchdog is warning the agency is at risk of cyberattacks because of lax controls for its data."

"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state."