It seems like a lot of folks have a bone to pick with Rep. Joe Manchin [D-WV] who has just this week single-handedly “torpedoed” the Build Back Better bill. The BBB could have been the “the most significant climate legislation … Continue reading
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This post has been updated. On Wednesday morning, the FDA issued the first emergency use authorization for a COVID treatment pill. In a phase III trial, Pfizer’s Pavloxvid was 89 percent effective at stopping high-risk COVID patients from becoming severely … Continue reading
When the US, Europe, and Canada first unveiled the plans for the James Webb Space Telescope in 1997, it sounded like a pitch from an overambitious science student. The contraption would have to schlep a 26-foot-wide mirror across the solar … Continue reading
Life as we know it shouldn’t be able to survive in Venus’s swirling atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. Its clouds are so acidic, in fact, that they don’t even register on the regular pH scale. But a new … Continue reading
This story originally featured on Nexus Media News, a nonprofit climate change news service. On a sweltering morning in July of 2021, thousands of dead fish washed onto the northeastern shores of Pokegama Lake, 60 miles north of Minneapolis. Deb … Continue reading
Ed Stoddard is a Johannesburg-based journalist with a focus on resource industries, wildlife, economics, and the environment in Africa. A Reuters correspondent for 24 years, he is now a regular contributor to the South African news site The Daily Maverick. … Continue reading
You don’t have to go far from home to travel somewhere amazing. Every state, no matter how small, hosts natural and technological marvels that you may have never bothered to go see—which means a memorable trip doesn’t have to require … Continue reading
Anastasia Snelling is the department chair of Health Studies at American University. Rebecca Hagedorn is an assistant professor in Food and Nutrition at Meredith College. This story originally featured in The Conversation. It’s harder to learn when you are suffering … Continue reading
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