US interior secretary recommends altering some national monuments for...
Following a four-month review of more than two dozen national monuments, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke submitted confidential recommendations to the Trump administration in August. A leaked...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about modern nuclear war
It’s been just over 70 years since two atomic bombs devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and last time that nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. But around 22,000...
View ArticleWild swings in the weather mean that some farm crops will flourish, while...
Wide-spread droughts and heat waves are making farming increasingly unpredictable, and some farmers are having to adjust on the fly to changing conditions from year to year.After 22 years, Pennsylvania...
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A Netflix animal rights movie came at a strange time for South Korea
South Korea looks very different than it did decades ago, especially when it comes to attitudes toward animals.Once one of the poorest nations in the world, keeping dogs and cats in the home was...
View ArticleWith Nicaragua's signature, US and Syria are the last holdouts from the Paris...
Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact.The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global...
View ArticleRussian trolls tried to recruit a prominent US activist. He didn’t take the...
When Micah White, the co-creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement, received an email from a freelance reporter requesting an interview for the website BlackMattersUS, he didn’t think much of it.On...
View ArticleIn New York, a whale of a comeback story
When you think of New York wildlife, whales probably aren’t the first animals that come to mind — but they’re actually native to the waters around the city. After disappearing from New York waters...
View ArticleTiny Montana firm hired to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid
Weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, nearly 80 percent of the island remains without power.Typically, power companies rely on “mutual aid” agreements with other utilities following natural...
View ArticleThe trouble with managing America’s wild horses
Around 75,000 wild horses roam the valleys and mountain ranges of the American West, descendants of long ago runaways. The horses have been protected by federal law since the early 1970s, but according...
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This 18-year-old from New York is suing the Trump administration over climate...
Victoria Barrett was really looking forward to her high school’s retreat junior year, but she got there late — right in the middle of the talent show, and in no mood to party.“I’m in a room full of...
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‘Symbolic rubble’ from crumbling adobe homes preserves the past and eases...
Children in Juchitán sing the national anthem and onlookers cry before bulldozers rake at what was once the largest school in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico's narrowest point. The area...
View ArticleTendues and torque
Ken Laws was in his early 40s when he decided he wanted to study ballet.Laws taught college physics, and when he had to shift his center of gravity to perform a simple pose at the barre, he immediately...
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Tree species are leap-frogging up mountains in reaction to climate change
Many species of trees tend to move to higher, cooler habitats in response to a warming climate. Now, research on two pine tree species in the western US Great Basin shows some species move faster than...
View ArticleNew airport security measures add the human element back into screenings
New security measures have gone into effect for all flights traveling to the US.Airlines will be interviewing passengers at check-in and boarding gates all over the world to comply with new government...
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In hurricane-prone Miami, one meteorologist is forecasting the future
In early September, Hurricane Irma was barreling toward Miami. Veteran meteorologist John Morales was giving his forecast on South Florida’s local NBC affiliate, in front of angry red weather...
View ArticleAs global carbon dioxide levels climb, plants are becoming better at...
A recent study shows that increased carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is leading to higher rates of photosynthesis in vegetation.“There’s more photosynthesis going on than in the past, and there’s...
View ArticleNeanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of...
Up to about 100,000 years ago, our human ancestors coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe and interbred with them for thousands of years. The Neanderthals eventually went extinct, but many of us still...
View ArticleGlobal warming threatens nutrition levels in staple crops
New research suggests that declining levels of iron, zinc and protein resulting from high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are putting human health at risk, especially in the developing...
View ArticleHere are some of the stories RT says it promoted on Twitter
Days after being banned from advertising on Twitter, Kremlin-backed media outlet RT has shared details about the content of its advertisements in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election.On...
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There's more CO2 in the atmosphere now than any point in almost a million years
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2016. The concentration of the heat-trapping gas is higher than it’s been in at least 800,000 years, including all of human history.That's...
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