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New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009. Continue reading...

This paper is motivated by growing concern about tipping dynamics and processes that can cause abrupt, self-amplifying, and irreversible changes across the Earth system and societies. It assesses curr...

These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.

Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

Flash floods have killed at least 389 people while homes and infrastructure have been swept away

As you may know, Stand Up for Science has endorsed Brian Poindexter for Congress in Ohio’s 7th District. He's exactly who we need in Washington: a working class, pro-science, pro-union advocate for wo...

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Don’t miss the latest episode of Hi, Energy! Host Esteban Gast and Dr. Aradhna Tripati dive into the climate impacts we face today, ways community can serve as a climate solution, and how imagination ...

Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin's streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten th...

At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling

“Trump is pushing for the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history."

These new rules will make it harder for some international students to visit and stay in the US.

Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged

The end of "roadless rule" protections would open millions of acres of pristine forests to commercial use. Supporters sa

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

Experts say putrid stench shows overhaul of sewers is needed – like the one prompted by the Great Stink of 1858

Consortium for Developing Leadership in Science (CDLS) is requesting a one-time $24.6 million state investment to sustain community science, climate resilience, environmental justice, and STEM leaders...

Plane spends 30 minutes off the Essex coast marking out shape of a bin in apparent tribute to Nigel Farage’s rival

Nation.Cymru staff A new summer exhibition will shine a light on a remarkable artistic community whose bold vision helped redefine Welsh art in the early twentieth century. The new exhibition called ‘...

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

As the threat of federal interference looms over the midterms, we can look to D.C., where grassroots election protectors stood up to federal troops.

Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people.

To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (“They don’t mean me”) or by despair (“There’s nothing we can do”). Eac...