Immigration isn’t the only hot-button issue along the US-Mexico border. There’s also a growing water shortage that’s affecting farmers, businesses and cities on both sides.

What happens on widely-used social media platforms matters, and it’s worth asking what effect it will have, immediately and in the longer term, for Meta to cast aside its modest fact-checking efforts.

On the morning after the 2016 election my fellow scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and I exchanged stunned looks as we passed in the hallway. We understood—and feared—based on the 2016 campaign how the new Trump administration would downplay, deny, and sideline science. But our dismay soon turned to resolve: recognizing

Since 1998 more than 100,000 properties around the world—from apartments and office towers to hospitals, dorms, and churches—have earned a sleek seal emblazoned with three oak leaves and four...

Since 1998 more than 100,000 properties around the world—from apartments and office towers to hospitals, dorms, and churches—have earned a sleek seal emblazoned with three oak leaves and four...

New UCS President Gretchen Goldman is ready to hold the line against attacks on science.

Cities across the normally wet Northeast scrambled to reduce water use amid a 2024 drought. It was a reminder that drought isn’t a problem only in the West.

Affordable housing is a challenge for rural America, too.