There are actually two North Poles. One has been wandering over northern Canada and north of there for years. An earth scientist…
The US had a rare year without a hurricane make landfall, but it saw too much extreme rainfall and flash flooding across…
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The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics…
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Industry leaders have objected to reversals of long-standing policies, and market forces are moving against the Trump administration’s…
An innovative study mapped preterm births, low birth weights and infant mortality to municipal water wells downstream from…
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean,…
Rising electricity demand has researchers exploring a wide range of methods to generate more power, including a type of…
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects…
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The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel,…
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable…
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent…
Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies…
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face…
In the past, farmers have balanced their political beliefs against market logic. How much pressure can farmers endure?
Wealthy countries promised billions of dollars to help developing nations adapt to climate change, but the result rests…