History provides powerful lessons for the special role that scientists can and must play to defend democracy.

Congress must stop the Trump administration’s destructive actions.

This week, communities across the country are asking their state legislators for a common-sense solution—using a practice that’s been around for decades—to make polluters pay. In 1980, following decades of high-profile disasters from toxic pollution, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), more commonly known as “Superfund.” On a basic level,

The Trump administration has made it a mission to eliminate life-saving and health-protecting rules we all rely on, in order to increase profits for a few well-connected corporations. In yet another step towards this harmful goal, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), quietly and without public comment, stopped putting a dollar amount on the value of

Ski resorts in Colorado can make snow, but it only goes so far.

Some of these ‘forever chemicals’ are toxic at very low levels. They can get into water systems and bioaccumulate in fish, ultimately posing risks to people.

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it. 

Colorado’s 2026 legislative session kicked off this month—and it’s starting under a dry winter sky and a tight budget, creating tough conditions on the ground  and tough decisions at the...

Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.

On a quiet stretch of tidal flat at Outback Key, two tiny shorebirds illustrate a story of conservation success. “Jevie” (also known as “Obby” in Michigan) and “Lopey” are banded birds...

One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared. A recovery is underway.

Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other aquatic organisms.