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Eric Niiler

ARTICLES BY ERIC NIILER

The Trump administration is asserting that CO2 isn’t a threat to public health. (Bloomberg)

Is CO2 truly a pollutant? We break down the debate

4 min read . 18 Aug 2025

This screengraB from a NASA livestream shows the SpaceX Dragon Crew-10 members (C, in dark blue) NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, clapping after entering the International Space Station flanked by NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague and Don Pettit and Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ochinin and Ivan Vagner, on March 16, 2025. (Photo by NASA / AFP)

The space station is too clean, and it’s making astronauts sick

2 min read . 25 Mar 2025

Mohammed Zoeduah welds a canister that will hold spent nuclear fuel for decades at Holtec International’s manufacturing plant in Camden, N.J. (Joe Carrotta/WSJ)

A nuclear-power revival brings back an old problem: What to do with the waste

5 min read . 05 Mar 2025

In time, AI-based programs could calculate forecasts faster and at a lower cost than existing methods, scientists say. (Image: Pixabay)

AI is learning to predict the weather

5 min read . 02 Aug 2024

Scientists inspired by the sci-fi novel and film series have designed a lightweight filtration system that, like the full-body “stillsuit” worn by inhabitants of the fictional planet Arrakis, would purify urine and allow the wearer to sip the reclaimed water.

‘Stillsuit’ from ‘Dune’ inspires design for astronauts

1 min read . 12 Jul 2024

Scientists are setting up a plantation of trees that can produce commercial quantities of truffles and other high-value mushrooms. (Image Pixabay)

How to eat your way to a greener planet

4 min read . 05 Jun 2024

In each of the deluges this April, a particular set of severe weather conditions came together to produce the storms, according to meteorologists and climate scientists. (Image: Pixabay)

The science behind why the world is getting wetter

7 min read . 05 May 2024

Michael Mann, in his office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

This Scientist Fought His Attackers in Court—and Won

6 min read . 14 Mar 2024

Three projects underway aim to alter the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans to cool the planet. (Image: Pixabay)

Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet

5 min read . 14 Feb 2024

Powerful rain events created havoc across many parts of the globe. (Photo: Reuters)

2023 was a year of extreme weather. Expect more in 2024.

4 min read . 09 Jan 2024

The annual footprint of bitcoin-mining operations is projected to surpass 591 billion gallons of water this year while New York City residents and businesses consumed 403 billion gallons in 2022

Bitcoin Mining Used More Water Than New York City Last Year

3 min read . 06 Dec 2023

Efforts were under way to extinguish a wildfire near Athens in July

1.5 Degrees: A Tiny Number With a Global Effect

5 min read . 28 Nov 2023

Even though energy from carbon-free solar and wind power is making huge gains, the benefits are diminished by ongoing fossil fuel production. (File Photo: Reuters)

We’re producing too much coal, oil and gas, report says

2 min read . 08 Nov 2023

Workers at the Vulcan concrete plant wash off their trucks in between taking batches of concrete out to job sites.

Concrete Has a Big Carbon Footprint. Can Green Tech Fix It?

4 min read . 02 Nov 2023

Some of these technologies have been around for more than a decade but are experiencing greater demand as global temperatures rise

Technologies Help Cities and Neighborhoods Beat the Heat

4 min read . 05 Sept 2023

BETTMERALP, SWITZERLAND - Europe’s Glaciers Melted at Record Rate After Double Whammy. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Europe’s Glaciers Melted at Record Rate After Double Whammy

3 min read . 22 Apr 2023

Civilians look for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, on February 7, 2023 (Photo: AFP)

How the Turkey-Syria earthquake occurred: Behind the science of the catastrophe

2 min read . 08 Feb 2023

A study by researchers from China analyzed seismic waves from earthquakes. (Photo: AFP)

Earth’s inner core may be reversing its rotation, study finds

2 min read . 27 Jan 2023

Clouds hang over the alps near the Stubai glacier in Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria, Sunday. (AP)

Last eight years were the warmest in modern times, UN body says

3 min read . 06 Nov 2022

Staghorn coral spawns near North Key Largo, Fla (Photo: AP)

Finding new drugs from the deep sea via ‘eDNA’

5 min read . 09 Sept 2022