Satellites like Landsat play a crucial role in helping cities prepare and respond to extreme heat, a leading weather-related…
Farmers are contending with huge spikes in fertilizer prices. The Biden administration is paying US companies to boost synthetic…
This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.
Other presidents used the Defense Production Act to boost fossil fuel supplies. Biden is using it to replace them with clean…
A deadly neurological infection, chronic wasting disease, has been detected in deer, elk and moose in 30 states and four…
Thanks to humans, the atmosphere has 50% more planet-warming carbon dioxide today than it did before the industrial era.…
As nations pledge to preserve swaths of ocean within their territorial waters, a marine scientist explains why some marine…
Only 13% of US solar industry jobs are currently in manufacturing. The Biden administration hopes the sector will grow fast,…
Thwaites Glacier’s ice shelf appears to be splintering, and scientists fear it could give way in the next few years. A…
The recent goring of a tourist who approached within 10 feet of a bison in Yellowstone National Park is a reminder that…
With the world losing species at an alarming rate, a conservation biologist explains how ideas about protecting biodiversity…
The Stockholm Conference in June 1972 launched five decades of international negotiations on everything from biodiversity…
The test facility in Miami helps building designers prevent future storm damage. With the warming climate intensifying hurricanes,…
Traffic crashes kill and injure millions worldwide every year and are a major drain on economic development. Improving road…
Plastic is made from oil and natural gas, which started out as fossilized plant and animal material. But buried deep underground…
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study…
A study found $1.4 trillion in oil and gas industry assets would be at risk if governments follow through on their pledges…
Would you trust a weather forecast made by a machine that had learned how weather systems behaved by reviewing thousands…
Sustainable investing’s credibility took a hit when the S&P 500 ESG index dropped the electric vehicle-maker but kept…
Former Soviet bloc nations have reason to worry about an embargo on Russian oil, but Europeans are finally recognizing the…