As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that this week’s state Senate confirmation hearing for the governor’s Department of ...

The pharmaceutical industry faces environmental challenges. Green chemistry offers sustainable solutions to reduce waste and enhance drug discovery processes.

Geologic mapping, the report emphasizes, is a scientific process. Every map is the result of hypothesis testing, data ...

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In the battle to slow climate change, local and state governments, as well as citizens, have taken to the courts. Their ...

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like ...

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions ...

Spending cuts and directives questioning the reality and urgency of climate change have marked quick shifts in U.S. science ...

In part one of our interview, Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...