SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other changes lie mostly outside people’s control: wildfires burn through communities, and hurricanes reshape coastlines. For most of the past four decades,...

In the 1800s, Hartford, Connecticut, picked up the nickname, "The Insurance Capital of the World." Tony Dokoupil visits the city to ask people about rising insurance and healthcare costs. Source link

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers...

I'm a big believer in holding on to your tech for as long as possible, but at a certain point, you do need...

Aiming to transition away from fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change, world leaders...

A gigantic underwater volcano became a massive chemistry experiment that could help researchers quantify the success of tactics designed to tackle climate change. In January 2022, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean exploded with the power...

Gravitational wave astronomy has been a tremendous breakthrough in our understanding of black holes. We can now detect not just the electromagnetic spectrum of light, but also the very ripples of...

People who care the most about the environment also do the most environmental damage with their jet-setting lifestyle, at...

Extreme weather is posing a growing threat to the power supplies Americans rely on.In 2021, a fierce winter storm left millions of Texans without electricity and water for days. Hurricane Helene in 2024 knocked...

Trump has third medical exam of the past year - CBS News ...