Politics--alas--is what we need

On the 35th anniversary of Pearl Jam's generation-shaking debut, here's how the band members remember its creation

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

As smoke from Canadian wildfires chokes the United States, Republicans are blaming everyone but the industry heating the planet. Guess why?

Alt: Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic

The campaign against Measure E has created a community around a factlike object: that Oaklanders pay the “highest taxes per capita” in the state.

The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. Ho...

A Breezy Rant

Global shockwaves from the war on Iran

I had already done the hard part that night: getting my kids to sleep. It was dark now, May 20, 2022, one of the last cool evenings before summer hit central Indiana. I told my wife I was going on a w...

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

Philip Bump: What Elon Musk was really getting at when he incorrectly claimed “American culture” is of “English-Scotts-Irish origin.”

"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."

Alt: General Patton, played by George C Scott, in a military uniform salutes in front of an american flag ..

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

Trump said that the U.S. would withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.

OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.