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City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September, but they aren’t sure exactly how.

A new report shared exclusively with Heatmap documents failures of transparency and governance at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

Densely packed needles along the shoots of evergreen conifers exhibit shade-acclimated photosynthetic characteristics even under full sunlight

Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before publicly acknowledging the issue, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

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We humans are a delicate bunch. We don’t have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so we have to steal what other creatures produce just to survive in regions a...

A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.

New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its fifth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the c...

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...

Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

The slop is winning.

Op vrijdag 17 oktober werd voor de vierde keer de Cosmos Boekenprijs uitgereikt voor uitblinkende populairwetenschappelijke boeken over de natuurwetenschappen.

The BBC hears devastating accounts of Afghan mothers and babies dying after US-backed clinics shut.

The cold water upswell, which is vital to marine life, did not materialize for the first time on record. Researchers are trying to figure out why.

As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

Disaster aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.

Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.

Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.

Dentists and orthodontists depend heavily on plastics and are beginning to weigh the tradeoffs.

Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm