How far will Montana's push to remove lead from school drinking water go?

Montana’s legislature designated $3.7 million this spring to remove lead from school drinking-water supplies, then the…

Structure formation during freeze casting filmed in 3D and real time

Freeze casting processes can be used to produce highly porous and hierarchically structured materials that have…

Q&A: There's a better way to fight wildfires, indigenous groups say

More frequent fires. Smaller, cooler blazes. Nighttime and early morning burns. Click here for…

Opinion: The US broke global trade rules to try to fix climate change. To finish the job, it has to fix the trade system

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law, is now expected to prompt…

Newly discovered comet visible in night sky this weekend

A comet called Nishimura discovered just a month ago could be visible to the naked eye…

Invasive species risk a biodiversity disaster—but there is still time to stop it

Earth’s habitats are facing a big increase in the number of alien species they have to…

Climate change is destroying reefs, but the effects are more than ecological—they're also cultural and spiritual

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Aug. 30, 2023, bringing surging seas and…

NASA's LRO observes Chandrayaan-3 landing site

NASA’s LRO—the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—spacecraft imaged the Chandrayaan-3 landing site on the moon’s surface. …

Researchers create new spatial omics method

Researchers at Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have managed to create…

UN invasive species report reveals scale of threat to nature and people—and how to manage it

More than 3,500 invasive alien species are seriously compromising human well-being and causing irreversible damage to…