Advances in Earth observation (EO) remote sensing technologies have delivered a range of aerosol and trace gas pollution data with ever-improving spatial and temporal resolution, significantly bene...

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The U.S. eliminated measles a quarter century ago, but to keep its “measles-free” designation, officials will have to make a strong case that measles is not continuously spreading within its borders. ...

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“Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.

Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.

A letter from the Solar Energy Industries Association asks for Congress’ help to reverse the administration’s effective permitting ban.

A global ambassador program training leaders in low- and middle-income countries to fight air pollution through data, science, and community action.

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Join us on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 for a new Science on the 7th livestream episode. We will discuss satellites and air quality with Tracey Holloway.

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If even only a few of these ideas are enacted, it would be a harbinger of doom for wind energy in America.

The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to acknowledge how his anti-vaccine rhetoric endangers public health workers.

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.