Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change driven extinction. If these native plants are going to have any chance of surviving into the future, ...

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The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday afternoon that the Maryland Transportation Authority never conducted a risk assessment on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that ...

Trump administration plans to destroy EPA science will leave the air we breathe and the water we drink more polluted ...

She also described a tension between the agency’s science and industry — noting that chemical companies have pushed back on risk assessments that tell how toxic a chemical is. “There’s ...

Interior Department employees say they have been scrambling to keep the lights on and do their jobs as budget cuts driven by ...

Part of his job is to perform the free wildfire risk assessments offered by Durango ... “A year like this is when dense neighborhoods start to do actually actionable work,” Nielsen said.

Legislation introduced in Congress would prohibit the EPA from using any of IRIS’ hundreds of chemical assessments ... hard science that allow the agency to identify heightened disease risk ...

“This can help us assess whether there is a real health risk and what we might do to reduce it.” ...

A drone panoramic view of Oroville Dam and main spillway at Lake Oroville in Butte County, Calif. Photo taken March 11, 2025.

Lately, there have been many headlines about scientific fraud and journal article retractions. If this trend continues, it represents a serious threat to public trust in science.