The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Climate change and logging are not competing threats to native forests. Their effects compound one another, increasing emissions, fire risk and pressure on biodiversity.

On the occasion of the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Leo receives its members in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican and ...

Pulpwood helped launch the region’s industrial era. Mill closures have axed demand, marking the biggest threat since the fall of King Cotton.

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

Diatoms are a major phytoplankton group that plays a critical role in aquatic biogeochemical processes. Their metabolism relies on trace metals as cofactors for numerous enzymes, and changes in seawa...

The United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts of climate change.

Across 276 site-years from 114 boreal and temperate peatlands, annual CO2 fluxes have a strong, nonlinear relationship with water levels. On the daily and annual scale hydrology and temperature intera...

The climate scientist Michael Mann talking about the new tricks and deception strategies currently being used by the fossil fuel industry.

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

Fu et al. find that the orb-weaving spider Araneus ventricosus manipulates the bioluminescent signals of its male firefly prey Abscondita terminalis and thus lures more male fireflies into its web.

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “water tower” of Asia, supplies freshwater for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream. New research led by scientists at Penn State, Tsinghua University and the ...

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Explore the link between EPA nitrate pollution and cancer. Learn about the serious health risks from drinking water contamination.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire