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EnvironmentMeet ‘Coalie,’ the anime-style anthropomorphic lump designed to sell you the idea that pollution can be clean
By Annie Persons and The ConversationMay 12, 2026
North AmericaWhy Americans are paying $2 billion to cancel wind projects amid an energy crisis: Trump’s green problems
By Christopher Niezrecki, Ben Link, Zoe Getman-Pickering and The ConversationMay 12, 2026
EnvironmentThe AI boom is built on the backs of the world’s poorest, most exploited people, UN researchers find
By Abraham Nunbogu, Kaveh Madani and The ConversationApril 29, 2026
PoliticsIran has Trump caught on the same math that Ukraine is using against Putin: $1 million missiles, $20,000 drones
By Aaron Brynildson and The ConversationApril 22, 2026
By Joëlle Rollo-Koster and The ConversationApril 15, 2026
EnergyIran and the U.S. live in 2 different worlds, law of the sea expert says—and both of those are different from most maritime law
By Elizabeth Mendenhall and The ConversationApril 15, 2026
EnergyA global food emergency: Why the closed Strait of Hormuz puts half the world’s calories at risk
By Aya S. Chacar and The ConversationApril 9, 2026
By Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Patrick Van Esch and The ConversationApril 9, 2026
EnvironmentNewt Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America
By The Conversation and Christine KeinerApril 3, 2026
HealthCancer’s grim calculus for the young: their insurance status can determine how long they survive
By Rhonda Winegar, Tara Martin, Zhaoli Liu and The ConversationApril 1, 2026
By Emily A. Margolis and The ConversationMarch 31, 2026
By Flavio Macau and The ConversationMarch 31, 2026
CybersecurityWhat if I told you the ‘AI slop’ debate was over 100 years old? It used to be about ‘ghostwriting’
By Emily Hodgson Anderson and The ConversationMarch 27, 2026
By Jeffrey Tully, Christian Dameff and The ConversationMarch 26, 2026
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