More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been to...
Fossil Fuels Are the Future, Chris Wright Tells African Leaders
For the past two days, under the soft lights of chandeliers in a Marriott basement a block from the White House, energy minis...
Climate Change Made South Sudan Heat Wave More Likely, Study Finds
After a blistering February heat wave in South Sudan’s capital city caused dozens of students to collapse from heat stroke, o...
Trump’s E.P.A. To Rewrite Rules Aimed at Averting Chemical Disasters
The Trump administration has moved to rewrite rules designed to prevent disasters at thousands of chemical facilities across ...
U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad
What’s the air quality in New Delhi, Jakarta or Buenos Aires? Until Tuesday, the United States Embassy in those cities could ...
World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground
After months of drifting, the world’s largest iceberg has come to a halt near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlant...
Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web
Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters...
Greenpeace Faces Tough Start in Trial Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Acce...
France Bans PFAS in Many Products, but Not Cookware
A year ago, France embarked on an ambitious goal: To craft the world’s widest ranging ban on the use of harmful “forever chem...
Trump’s Cuts Come With Risks. Including From Volcanoes.
When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska’s ...