Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.
Heat waves can be dangerous, and the conditions indoors can be worse than outdoors. A study of all the single-family homes in Austin, Texas, shows why.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
Science and democracy are interconnected.
Many steps that are good for clean energy also dovetail with federal priorities, from affordable housing to data centers and rural development.
The recommendations would leave lower income disaster survivors with fewer resources to recover.
(Washington D.C.--June 24, 2026)--Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.) this week released text for a Senate companion bill to the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026...
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best approach to maintain urban water quality?
In a world increasingly polluted by AI slop, the Painted Bunting might make you think twice: Is that bird real? Fortunately for us, male Painted Buntings—adorned with splashes of primary colors...
I walk my dogs along the Potomac River most evenings. My route has become second nature, the curve of the path, the movement of the river, the parts of the walk I know by heart. Often, I turn a bend...
Chances are, if you’ve spent any time near a body of water, you have seen an Osprey. Aptly nicknamed fish hawks, the birds hunt along coastlines, rivers, and lakes throughout the hemisphere and the...
Last winter, Lianne Koczur traveled to Central Alabama to glimpse a landscape of the past—and perhaps one for the future. Dense, dormant grass covered the 100-acre field. “Most people would walk...