Aging infrastructure, transmission bottlenecks and increased demand from data centers are hitting consumers’ wallets.
Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.
A long-time leader of California’s climate efforts explains how governors from Brazil to Indonesia have become the leading…
The Trump administrations has canceled more than 1,400 federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer…
As climate-related disasters grow more frequent and intense, one group remains dangerously underprepared: older adults.…
Federal regulations govern which pesticides can be used and give specific directions for applying them. Ignoring those directions…
The public has until May 19 to weigh in on a Trump administration plan that would leave many endangered species at much…
Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness…
The problem of high energy prices and rising numbers of people unable to afford them isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
The administration wants to cut funding for programs that help communities adapt to wildfire risk, sea-level rise and invasive…
Insects are often under pressure from several threats at once, from pesticides to habitat loss to pollution.
Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making…
From sending more pollen airborne to breaking up pollen grains, which lets them penetrate deeper into your lungs, the wind…
A meteorologist explains three essential components of NOAA hurricane data collection that forecasters everywhere rely on…
Dating back centuries, a legal principle declares certain natural resources must be protected by the government for present…
There are elements of these ancient, distant George Lucas stories that might seem like science fiction but are, in fact,…
Engineers use giant fans in the Wall of Wind test facility to study the destructive ways these powerful winds can interact…
Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.
The Florida Wildlife Corridor, which turns 15 this year, connects habitats across the state for panthers, bears, sparrows…
Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been…