Articles filed under Science
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HBCU students, faculty press urgent need for climate actionApr 15, 2022 7:00 am - New Orleans (AP) - Both joy and frustration are in the air in New Orleans at the HBCU Climate Change Conference this week as environmental and climate advocates and rese...
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Fuel leak thwarts NASA's dress rehearsal for moon rocketApr 14, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test was thwarted Thursday by a hazardous hydrogen leak, the latest in a s...
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There's still a way to reach global goal on climate changeApr 14, 2022 7:00 am - If nations do all that they've promised to fight climate change, the world can still meet one of two internationally agreed upon goals for limiting warming. But the plan...
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Constable: The Grove in Glenview hosts roots, remains of an amazing life and mysterious deathApr 14, 2022 5:00 am - One of the greatest naturalists of the 19th century, Robert Kennicott, or rather his skeleton, is on display at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington. His...
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Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate changeApr 13, 2022 7:00 am - Polly Glover realized her son had asthma when he was nine months old. Now 26, he carries an inhaler in his pocket whenever he's out and about in Prairieville, Louisiana,...
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WH environmental justice advisors press for Justice40 actionApr 13, 2022 7:00 am - Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council said Tuesday that the Biden administration hadn't done enough to make good on its promise that 40% ...
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Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainierApr 12, 2022 7:00 am - Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scie...
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NOAA: Potent heat-trapping methane increases at record paceApr 07, 2022 7:00 am - Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s...
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Dolphins' playful social habits form bonds, but spread virusApr 07, 2022 7:00 am - REEDVILLE, Va. (AP) - Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water's surface to breathe - first exhaling, then inhaling - before slipping back under the wave...
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Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicistsApr 07, 2022 7:00 am - The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass t...