The First Meeting of the House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee Did Not Go So Well
After months of build up, the new House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis held its first hearing on Thursday. The witnesses were all young adults who…
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Another day, another chemical plant fire. That’s the depressing reality in the Houston area. Barely two weeks after a chemical plant fire belched a cloud of toxic… Read More
Wood-boring clams don’t look like the ones you or I might find steamed with pasta. They’re smaller than a pea, and live exclusively in the deep ocean,… Read More
The next best thing to banning cars is crafting policies that factor in the toll they take on society. And that’s exactly what New York has now… Read More
In a major blow to the Donald Trump administration’s oil and gas policy, on Friday a federal judge ruled the president’s order opening massive swathes of the… Read More
America’s Government Scientists Are Eyeing a Future in Politics
PHILADELPHIA–As the Trump administration continues to attack science, scientists continue to push back, whether by joining rallies and strikes or running for office. In the next election…
Scientists aren’t known for being alarmists. And that’s exactly what makes a new study released Thursday on amphibians so, well, alarming. Read More
A federal jury in California has awarded $80 million to a man who said Monsanto herbicide Roundup was a “substantial factor” in him developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma, CNN… Read More
The byzantine networks of rivers and streams that drain the Midwest is facing a flooding crisis of historic proportions. The multibillion disaster centered in Nebraska will spread… Read More
The Iditarod is at a crossroads. The thousand-mile sled dog race through Alaska is bound as much by tradition as by the rigging between dog-sledders, or mushers,… Read More