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What climate issues are on midterm election ballots? Co-host Jake Bolster discusses local and national concerns with Iowa reporter Anika Jane Beamer and the Environmental Voter Project. By Jake Bolster, Anika Jane Beamer, Nathaniel Eisen Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. This year’sContinue Reading

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For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations inContinue Reading

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Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil measurements, Yale scientists have uncovered surprising clues about which prehistoric creatures truly became aquatic. Their findings suggest that Spinosaurus spent most of its lifeContinue Reading

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The region’s expanding electric grid and semiconductor industry are driving increased emissions of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new research reveals. By Phil McKenna Climate pollutant concentrations in the Beijing region of northern China have plateaued or begun to decline—except for the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new researchContinue Reading