Limiting Professional Education Loans Is an Attack on Women, Science, and Healthcare
Why is the Trump administration redefining "professional" degrees, and whom will this affect?
Make America Polluted Again: Trump’s Deregulatory Blitz Will Harm Americans
The Trump administration is ignoring the people in favor of special interests. Here's what's at stake, and how to fight back.
Winter storms blanket the East, while the US West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
Buying Barf: How Owl Pellets Became a Classroom Hit and Thriving Industry
Three or four times a year, Chris Anderson takes off on a multi-day road trip around the Western United States. He drives from sunup to sundown to scour farms, vineyards, and forests for the tiny...
From Audubon’s Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries to Bermuda: A Yellow-crowned Night Heron Success Story
Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory located in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,000 miles northeast of Florida, is well known for its clear blue waters and pink sandy beaches. At least 25 bird species...
Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions – here’s how its carbon capture tech works
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects are the same.
The 125th Christmas Bird Count in Florida
Rare species and extremely high numbers are excluded from this summary if details were inadequate or lacking; see our final paragraph for species deleted from Florida CBCs this season. Bold-faced...
Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
Kyoto and the Stories We Still Need to Tell About Fossil Fuel Obstruction
This past weekend, I walked into Kyoto, the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Lincoln Center in New York, curious to see how they would turn the long, tedious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Climate meetings (known as COPs) that I attend into entertaining theater. I must say, they did an incredible
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.