As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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Two South American scientists win ‘environmental Nobel’ on human-nature divide
By Shanna Hanbury Two scientists from South America won the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement on Feb. 11 for ...
Biden’s EPA issued $20 billion in green grants. Now Trump’s administration wants that money back
In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he'll try to rescind $20 billion in grants ...
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‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs begin
President Donald Trump and his team view the Environmental Protection Agency as a threat to US prosperity. Workers have been ...
Critical health and science research is on the chopping block as Trump actions trigger shutdowns and confusion
Universities that do breakthrough-level studies are scrambling to understand the effects as their funding agencies slash ...