But when smoke plumes are close to the surface, people are breathing in wildfire chemicals and tiny particles. Those particles, known as PM2.5, can get deep into the lungs and exacerbate asthma and ...

On July 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and Development (ORD). The stated goal of the plan is to reduce budget ...

The Trump administration has placed two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

Two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were placed on leave this week, including ...

While Trump has infamously mocked climate change as “a great hoax,” the ICJ unanimously declared that international law ...

President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to upend a foundational scientific determination about the harms of ...

Federal lawmakers want to overhaul the Marine Mammal Protection Act, with changes aimed at bringing "objectivity and clarity" ...

The Data Foundation, the American Geophysical Union, and a coalition of universities are scrambling to ensure that the nation ...

Washington and Oregon are calling on the federal government to destroy its own decrepit vessels to prevent them from getting ...

The newly installed head of the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defense shield, a monumental undertaking projected to cost ...

No one has applied for a weather modification license in Florida since it became a requirement in 1957, according to state records ...

Back in 2003, when researchers began predicting with excellent accuracy how much of western Lake Erie would be coated with the green slime of a toxic algae bloom, there were important points to be ...