The Trump administration delayed a rule last year that could have sped up the effort to pinpoint the source of the contamination. Critics charge that food safety oversight has eroded overall.
Prospectors are eyeing mineral deposits within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.
The whole planet is warming, but changes in weather patterns could help explain why the continent is suffering so many bouts of severe heat.
A conservative group had tried to force the University of Michigan to hand over messages from a law professor who worked on “climate superfund” bills.
Mike Fincke spent 549 days in space across four missions, the fourth most time of any NASA astronaut.
The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.
The global weather disrupter appears to be taking a toll, and its peak could still be months away.
On Aug. 2, Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East will witness a solar blockbuster with extra-long totality. If you want to see it, book soon.
The recurring climate phenomenon is expected to peak later this year, but it is already causing dry spells and crop failures on three continents.
People gathered across the continent to watch the total solar eclipse on Wednesday.
California announced that it’s phasing out paraquat, a pesticide widely used in the United States that is linked to Parkinson’s disease.
We’re answering some questions about the solar eclipse on Aug. 12, and providing a place for you to ask more of them.
President Trump is calling for immunizations for measles, mumps and rubella to be given in individual jabs in three different appointments instead of the standard combination shot.
Soaring temperatures, widespread wildfires and dried-up rivers are transforming tourism across the continent. Here’s how travelers are responding.
Unlike the total solar eclipse that swept across Europe, the Perseids can be seen at night by anyone in the Northern Hemisphere.
New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.
During early calibration tests, the MOTHRA telescope’s array of lenses, which will soon number 1,140, captured stellar debris dissolving into space around the Helix Nebula.
Ahead of Wednesday’s rare cosmic event, thousands of people in London are searching for protective eyewear, as prices surge and stocks sell out.
New technology may make it easier for men with extremely low sperm counts to have biological children.
The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation.
With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. The Iran war has made Trump “salesman of the year,” one executive in Pakistan said.
With gas prices high, people in developing countries are lining up to buy battery-powered bikes. We took a spin around Lahore, Pakistan, on a small-but-mighty one.
The bald eagle and her mate gained fame during the pandemic, as a livestream tracked their nesting attempts. She died while being treated for anemia.
The Perseids will be most active on Wednesday into Thursday morning, on the moonless night after a total solar eclipse.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine had been under pressure from Republican leaders, including President Trump.
She challenged the conventional view that most head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
In Mato Grosso, Brazil, capybaras wandered into the building, but they were polite during the incursion.
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.