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Research, energy, and the environment, reported with the shared facts first and the competing interpretations clearly labeled.
A late-June European heat wave linked to roughly 10,000 excess deaths shows how extreme heat has become a measurable climate-era public-health emergency.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
The Trump administration’s rescission of the ESA’s regulatory definition of “harm” narrows habitat-based enforcement just as conservation research shows habitat loss is the dominant threat for many imperiled species.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
Martha Lillard’s death closes a visible chapter of America’s polio era while raising current questions about vaccination, eradication and long-term care for survivors.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
The Trump administration's EPA is rolling back smog-forming emissions rules for trucks, a move with direct consequences for air quality, public health, and environmental justice in freight corridors nationwide.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
Copernicus data show western Europe recorded its hottest June on record, a climate signal with immediate consequences for heat health, wildfire risk and public infrastructure.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
A small long-term study of an IDH1-targeted vaccine for aggressive astrocytoma found unusually durable survival and immune-response signals, but randomized trials are still needed before it can be called a proven treatment.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
Perseverance’s latest organic-carbon findings make Mars sample return more urgent while stopping well short of proving ancient life.
Amara Diallo · · 4 min read
A newly analyzed superluminous supernova showed a tightening light-curve “chirp” that researchers say is the first clear evidence of a newborn magnetar powering one of the universe’s brightest stellar explosions.
Ingrid Solveig Bauer · · 4 min read
The Grand Canyon is open. That is the easy part of the story, and it is the part summer travelers tend to hear first. The harder part is what the park and the weather service are s
Jennifer Rae Montoya · · 4 min read
Answer-First: A new AI-powered wildfire detection system from NOAA, called the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS), is being hailed as a "game changer" after it provided critical…
Peta Laurel McKenna · · 4 min read
The answer-first version: the Houston toad’s 2026 recovery push is not just “more eggs.” It is a field test of whether egg reintroductions, private-land habitat work, and better…
Silvia Grace Halvorsen · · 4 min read
NASA says the mission to raise the altitude of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is underway after LINK, a robotic servicing spacecraft built by Katalyst Space, launched Friday…
Silvia Grace Halvorsen · · 4 min read
NOAA Fisheries’ newest Northeast whale-rescue update is not a feel-good animal story. It is a public-safety warning: if a whale is entangled, report it…
Silvia Grace Halvorsen · · 4 min read
The weather story for the holiday weekend is blunt: a dangerous
Peta Laurel McKenna · · 4 min read
Across Britain, ponds are quietly vanishing. More than half have disappeared since the early 1900s, according to historic map analysis by researchers at…
Silvia Grace Halvorsen · · 4 min read
The sky right now The big action this week has already happened. SpaceX flew two missions out of Florida and California over the weekend — a Starlink…
Peta Laurel McKenna · · 4 min read