In ebola outbreak, an experimental vaccine is put to the test
An experimental Ebola vaccine to be deployed in an outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has conquered some major scientific hurdles in giving high protection, but it now faces extreme real-world...
View ArticleTwo friends from South Africa share the Goldman Environmental Prize
Two women from South Africa who joined forces to stop a secret nuclear power deal between South Africa and Russia are among the seven recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize.The prize...
View ArticleSpring's uncertain arrival poses problems for migrating birds
April 2018 was the coldest and snowiest April on record for much of North America. That spelled trouble for migrating birds who arrived in the north expecting to bulk up on the spring emergence of bugs...
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National Parks Service restores climate change language in new report after...
Backing away from attempts at censorship, the National Park Service on Friday released a report charting the risks to national parks from sea level rise and storms.Drafts of the report obtained earlier...
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The early impact of solar tariffs: Fewer American projects, fewer American jobs
Cypress Creek Renewables builds and manages large-scale solar farms across the US, which supply power to utilities. The company’s CEO Matt McGovern said “it’s very difficult, if not impossible” to find...
View ArticleDemocratic senators probe the extent of Koch brothers' influence on Trump...
A group of six Democratic senators wrote to the Trump administration last month asking it to explain its ties to the conservative fossil fuel magnates Charles and David Koch.The Koch brothers have...
View ArticleAs latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Poland is a little more than six months away. The conference — also known as the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United...
View ArticleRover finds new signs Mars may have harbored life
A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest...
View ArticleNo refuge for wildlife in some US wildlife refuges
A new report from the Center for Biological Diversity finds that chemical pesticides, totaling half a million pounds, are sprayed annually within some United States national wildlife refuges.About 560...
View ArticleTrump to leave G7 early, missing environmental talks
US President Donald Trump planned to leave the summit of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Saturday before it discussed climate change and the health of oceans, underlining fractures in the G7...
View ArticleAfter G7 summit, European leaders accuse Trump of 'incoherence and...
The United States and Canada swung sharply toward a diplomatic and trade crisis on Sunday as top White House advisers lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a day after US President Trump...
View ArticleSweden's #Teknisktfel movement exposes sexual harassment in the tech industry
When the callout was published on Nov. 19, 2017, all kinds of stories about sexual harassment on the job immediately began rolling in.There were the technicians who would send porn to female colleagues...
View ArticleOn Halekamahina Hill, volcano survivors try to salvage marijuana crop
Dale Altman and his grandson Josh Doran live on a 5-acre plot atop a hill on Hawaii's Big Island by the erupting Kilauea volcano, where they grow medical marijuana. They are the last remaining...
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England built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?
England, perhaps more than any other country in the world, was built on coal.The first successful steam engine was invented to pump water out of British coal mines. Coal powered the railroads and ships...
View ArticleWith pipeline decision, Canada's Trudeau draws ire of environmental supporters
“Canada is back.” Justin Trudeau said those words shortly after being elected prime minister of Canada in 2015. He talked about how the country was ready to step up its efforts to become more of a...
View ArticleA scientist's response to Antarctic ice loss: 'We can act.'
To someone living in the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, ice loss in Antarctica may seem like a distant area of concern.Not true, says Andrew Shepherd.Shepherd, a professor of Earth observation at the...
View ArticleThe feast-or-famine life of lobstering in Maine
The lobster industry has always been a rollercoaster of a profession — with lobstermen (and women) risking their lives to bring in the biggest catches.In recent years, though, global warming has...
View ArticleDespite devastation, lava tourism is on the rise in Hawaii
Shane Turpin has for years taken tourists on boat rides to see lava oozing lazily down Kilauea's slopes and into the Pacific Ocean several miles away.But when the river of molten rock burned down his...
View ArticlePrecision engineering creates modern perfection
From the USB port of your Apple MacBook to the Keurig that makes your morning cup of joe, precision permeates our lives. Even the Pilot pen you use to jot down notes at your desk (and, probably, the...
View ArticleGoogle hit with record $5 billion EU antitrust fine
In a penalty nearly double a previous record, EU regulators hit Google with a record $5 billion antitrust fine on Wednesday for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.Last year...
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