The strategy focuses on maintaining the nation’s STEM leadership, and it emphasizes inclusion, diversity, and workforce development.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
A team of more than 200 scientists released a decade-long look at how carbon weaves through Earth’s air, soil, water, and plants. Here are nine key takeaways from their report.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
With Democrats controlling the House of Representatives beginning in January, advocates see an opportunity to try to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas development.Read More »
A new U.S. government report finds that climate change is already increasing risks to health, the economy, and ecosystems across the United States. These risks are expected to grow in the coming decades.Read More »
The Democrats’ control of the House of Representatives promises to provide checks and balances on the Trump administration, environmental leaders say.Read More »
Voters today will decide the fate of measures to increase renewable energy use, require larger buffer zones between people and oil and gas development, and establish a statewide carbon emissions fee.Read More »Climate Change
A joint statement from countries with interests in the Arctic emphasizes the need for scientific collaboration in this rapidly changing region but sidesteps attributing climate change to human activities.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
The National Space Council moves ahead with plans to establish a new branch of the military, but a prominent Democratic congressman voices opposition.Read More »
