E.P.A. Axes Biden’s Climate and Pollution Limits on Power Plants
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said erasing regulations would produce jobs and lower electricity costs. He called efforts to fight climate change “a...
Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102
Conrad Selwyn Shinn was born on Sept. 12, 1922, in Leaksville, N.C., a small mill town since consolidated with two others.His father, Thomas...
Democrats Grill N.I.H. Leader on Cuts: Who Is Calling the Shots?
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes...
Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies
Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and...
Carbon Capture Comes Back Down to Earth
Six months ago, the prospects for the nascent carbon removal market seemed as vast as the sky.Bill Gates and other investors were lining...
Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the Republican Tax-Cut Bill
Over the past two decades, more than 5 million U.S. households from California to Georgia to Maine have put solar panels on their...
This Elusive Antarctic Squid Was Seen for the First Time
The deep-sea environs of the Earth’s poles are home to mysterious ocean creatures: giant sea spiders, Antarctic sea pigs, phantom jellyfish. Finding and...
First Ever Images of Sun’s South Pole Released by ESA Solar Orbiter
Spacecraft and specialized telescopes have been studying the sun closely for decades, probing the secrets of its spots, flares and corona. But neither...
Oceans cannot become ‘wild west’, warns UN chief
Esme StallardClimate and science correspondentReporting fromUN Oceans Conference, Nice, FranceGetty ImagesUnregulated mining in the deep sea should not be allowed to go ahead,...
A Near-Full ‘Strawberry Moon’ Will Shine Again on Wednesday Night
Night sky observers are being treated this week to a view of a red-tinted full moon — known in June as a “strawberry...
