Severe heat and drought are the hallmarks of a changing West
More than half of the Western United States is in the grips of "extreme" or "exceptional" drought. In California, Arizona and Utah, the period between...
Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths per year, study finds
More than 17,000 annual deaths are attributable to pollution from farms across the United States, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the...
Michael Collins, command module pilot on Apollo 11, dies at 90
Astronaut Michael Collins, who sat alone in the command module while Apollo 11 colleagues made history landing on the moon in 1969, died Monday at...
How protecting the ocean can save species and stop climate change
New research suggests a strategic, globally coordinated effort to protect more of the world's waters could not only bolster marine biodiversity and but also boost...
Study reveals Greenland ice sheet melted once before, and could again
Evidence that the entire Greenland ice sheet had melted a million years ago indicates that the biggest ice reservoir in the Northern Hemisphere can collapse...
White House could have traced and contained its COVID-19 outbreak; it didn’t
The administration did not effectively deploy contact tracing or more cutting-edge virus mapping in response to what Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease specialist,...