Chris Mooney

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media at the White House on June 2, 2017. The Environmental Protection Agency has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency.

Trump administration to decline to renew dozens of scientists for key EPA advisory board

August 22, 2019 at 4:50 a.m.

The Environmental Protection Agency has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency, continuing a scientific shakeup that has...

High-voltage electric transmission lines are silhouetted against the late day sky near a wind farm in Spearville, Kan.

Bitter scientific debate erupts over the future of America’s power grid

June 3, 2018 at 7:32 p.m.

Scientists are engaged in an increasingly bitter and personal feud over how much of the United States' power it can get from renewable sources, with a large group of scientists...

The world’s clouds are in different places than they were 30 years ago

August 22, 2019 at 12:08 a.m.

In a new study published in Nature on Monday, scientists say they have for the first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused...

Secret Service agents look over a dry farm field as President Barack Obama speaks to media about the drought situation in California in February.

UN agency: Pace of environmental damage ‘intensifying’ across the globe

August 21, 2019 at 11:26 p.m.

In a sweeping synthesis of global data, the United Nations Environment Programme has intensively catalogued environmental assaults across the six different major regions of the globe. And it finds that...

This file photo taken on October 18, 2008 shows the sun peaking through a canopy of trees on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah Park, Virginia.

Those ambitious global warming goals? The world may not know how to reach them

June 25, 2019 at 1:39 a.m.

In 11 days, on Earth Day, world leaders will assemble at the United Nations in New York to sign the Paris climate agreement. That document pledges to hold the planet's...

Antarctica’s ice is being carved up from below

June 22, 2019 at 8:11 p.m.

Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back nearly 10 feet of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating...

Matt Hopper holds and comforts Nyla Hopper, age 5 of Flint, after she has her blood drawn to be tested for lead on January 26, 2016 at Eisenhower Elementary School in Flint, Michigan.

It’s not just Flint: Poor communities across the country live with ‘extreme’ polluters

May 25, 2019 at 6:25 p.m.

As national attention focuses on Flint, Michigan -- where lead-contaminated water flowed for over a year to a relatively poor, minority community -- new research suggests that across the U.S.,...

Cars line up to in Chicago on a cold day.

Warming up your engine by idling does not help your car

June 1, 2019 at 6:38 a.m.

We've all heard the idea: In winter, your car needs a little time to warm up before you can drive it. And that's why across the United States, people who...

Wearing a yellow raincoat, Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he arrives in Tacloban, Philippines, on Jan. 17, 2015.

How climate-change doubters lost a papal fight

June 22, 2019 at 6:25 a.m.

Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind human-driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who...

Why you shouldn’t wash your dishes by hand

August 19, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

The year is 2015. Nonetheless, it is still common practice in many households to — after dinner — wash the dishes by hand to get all the grimy food off...

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