Apr 12, 2024
The first comprehensive survey of environmental inequalities by the mayor’s office of environmental justice reveals that nearly half of all New Yorkers live in areas with “disproportionate” burdens from pollution. Most affected are communities of color, which are also...
Apr 10, 2024
Making the Complex Understandable The rapidly changing scientific, medical and technical landscape requires the skills of a special type of journalist who can both understand and explain these changes to the general population. Science journalists take complicated...
Apr 9, 2024
Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change, in a decision that will set a precedent for future climate lawsuits. The European Court of...
Apr 6, 2024
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its selections for $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions within the historic $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), which was created under the Inflation Reduction Act as part of...
Apr 3, 2024
Water, Water Everywhere Water is among the most important resources on our planet. Without it, life would not exist. Hydrologists study how water moves across and through Earth’s crust. They study how rain, snow, and other forms of precipitation impact river flows or...
Mar 27, 2024
The Care and Conservation of Marine Mammals Marine mammal science is a diverse field that includes the study of animal behavior, communication, evolution, physiology, ecology, and zoology. Marine mammal scientists (also called marine mammalogists) study the...