FEATURES
Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years
How to resurrect a coral reef
The animal that’s everywhere and nowhere
The ocean’s rarest mammal has a few final lessons to teach us
Inside the fight between my small Iowa hometown and a $12 billion utility over smart meters and the radiation that some residents call 'poison'
A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy
INVESTIGATIONS
Fast-growing energy firm Powerhome Solar uses misleading tactics to lure customers into home solar deals that cost more than a car, insiders, legal claims, and leaked memos suggest
Internal documents, leaked audio, and 20 insiders reveal Exxon made managers dub more employees poor performers as the oil giant sought to quietly cut staff
A decade ago, Big Oil bet on algae as the fuel of the future. Now Exxon is the only major firm still backing the biofuel, which several top algae scientists say is destined to flop.
'Predatory and harmful': Misleading solar ads touting 100% free panels and fake stimulus programs spread on Facebook as the coronavirus upends door-to-door sales
‘Unconscionable’: Why an online directory of rehab facilities doubled as a recipe book for drugs like GHB, crack, and meth
OTHER FEATURED WRITING
The mystery of the mimic plant
Some people launder money. Other people launder cattle.
Oops, cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea
The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees
People Can't Find the Stars They Paid to Name—and They're Calling Astronomers for Tech Support
Inside Reality Star Spencer Pratt’s Hummingbird Empire
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