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Government Pulls Funding for the Arctic Report Card
The Trump administration is pulling funding from NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed report about the state of the region, which is warming more quickly than anywhere else on…
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake Hits Colombia, Latest on the Ring of Fire
Western Colombia was struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake this morning at 7:34 a.m. local time.
Tracking Science Policy Decisions and Approaches
The new administration has taken an array of decisive actions with far-reaching consequences for Earth and space scientists. Use our new tool to help sort them out.
Climate Change Made This Summer’s Canadian Wildfires Twice as Likely
Wildfires in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and the Northwest Territories have burned more than 3.9 million hectares this summer, prompted widespread evacuation orders, and created poor air quality for…
Climate Change Made Spain Wildfires At Least 20 Times More Likely
Over the past two weeks, large wildfires in southwestern France and central Spain have burned 255,000 hectares, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and created extremely poor air quality even…
A Changing Climate Will Lead to More AC in Wealthier Countries, and More Deaths in Poor Ones, New Report Suggests
A new report finds that the regions most affected by extreme heat are also the regions least likely to have increased levels of electricity to power the air conditioning that…
Trump’s Science Adviser Wants to Overhaul “Increasingly Calcified” U.S. Science Enterprise While Science Funding Lags
A report released this week directs the U.S. government to spark a “new golden age” of science by ushering funds toward artificial intelligence, fostering…
Scientists Might Have Detected the First Moon Outside Our Solar System… It Just Depends How You Define “Moon.”
What exactly is a moon? It’s an existential question lunar researchers found themselves pondering when they discovered an exosatellite at least 90% the size…
We’re Getting Better at Knowing When Climate Change Is to Blame, National Academies Report Says
Scientists have gotten much better at parsing how severe events are linked to climate change, a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences,…