In the Delaware River and other waterways and estuaries across the United States, scientists and conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of mussels and...
09/02/2022
Whales are known for being the largest and most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Now, marine biologists have discovered that they also capture tonnes of carbon from the...
09/01/2022
At a hyper-controlled indoor farm in industrial South San Francisco, four robots named John, Paul, George and Ringo carefully transfer seedlings from barcoded trays into 15-plus...
08/31/2022
Science + Technology Robert F Kennedy on the presidential campaign trail in 1968. Alamy Beyond GDP: changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three...
08/31/2022
When William Blake described England’s “green and pleasant land” in his poem Jerusalem, he was actually writing during a prolonged drought. Two centuries later, much of Europe...
08/30/2022
Apartment hunting in New York City is a special kind of hell. Friends warned me before I moved here five years ago, sharing stories of cockroaches and sketchy real estate...
08/30/2022
The small motorboat anchors in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Shrieks of wintering birds assault the vessel’s five crew members, all clad in bright orange flotation suits....
08/29/2022
English shellfish could be contaminated with sewage as untreated human waste was dumped 29,000 times by water companies last year in the water where they are cultivated. The...
08/28/2022
As a heatwave drags across the United States, local and state governments are scrambling to find solutions to the threats brought by record high temperatures. Washington DC and...
08/26/2022
COVID-19, the rising cost of living, ongoing health concerns and societal inequities have created an era of heightened public anxiety, which is changing the role of business in...
08/26/2022
I’ve never felt more helpless as a parent than I did during the black summer bushfires. Rushing my two-year-old son to hospital, I was overwhelmed with worry: there was no...
08/26/2022
By Michael Paulson Aug. 11, 2022 ASHLAND, Ore. — Smoke from a raging wildfire in California prompted the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to cancel a recent performance of “The...
08/25/2022