Month: March 2022

Corporations and countries around the world are promising to eliminate their contributions to climate change. But many of their targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions “Are “net-zero” climate targets just hot air?”

Almost every country in the world signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a monumental accord that aimed to limit global warming. But it was forged “The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow, Scotland”

As the White House revealed Thursday, President Joe Biden has stripped a lot from his Build Back Better framework to placate moderate Democrats. Free community “Biden’s $27 billion bet on forests”

More than 28 million children across the US are now eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, a step that could relieve anxiety for families, bring more “Covid-19 vaccines for young kids are a big step toward a new normal”

Every year, thousands of whales strand — meaning that they wind up trapped on beaches or in shallow waters — and it’s really hard to “The curious case of the ancient whale bones”

When SpaceX launches its first all-civilian crew into space later this fall and takes a multi-day trip circling the Earth, humanity can follow along online “Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV”

In 2017, an evolutionary biologist named R. Alexander Pyron ignited controversy with a Washington Post commentary titled “We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction “The case against the concept of biodiversity”

Michael Miranda had been fully vaccinated for over four months when he tested positive for the coronavirus. “I stared at my phone for a few “What it feels like to get Covid-19 after being vaccinated”

There’s a cliché that has popped up for years in discussions of climate and weather disasters: You can’t blame any individual event on climate change. “Climate change worsens extreme weather. A revolution in attribution science proved it.”

There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, infecting people and, hopefully only “We have to accept some risk of Covid-19”