A February 2017 protest by environmentalists in support of a New York state Exxon Mobil probe on climate change that will be the subject of a trial next week Charges that Exxon Mobil misled investors on the financial risks of climate change will be heard in court this month after […]
Tongass National Forest is a massive yet fragile treasure—logging and slicing roads into it will set off horrifying effects that will ripple through the ecosystem. PHOTOGRAPH: CARLOS ROJAS/GETTY IMAGES The Trump administration this week proposed ending the so-called Roadless Rule, which banned logging, development, and road construction in Alaska’s Tongass, the biggest national […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly 600 former Environmental Protection Agency officials have called for an investigation into whether the agency’s leaders abused their authority by threatening punitive action against California. In a letter to the House committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Energy and Commerce, 593 signatories asked for […]
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. A new study funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice sought to determine the effect of this legal change on crime rates. The study, which looked at legalization and sales of recreational cannabis in Colorado and Washington, […]
A member of a Malaysian wildlife team walks past containers with seized ivory tusks before the ivory was destroyed GETTY IMAGES At least one in five vertebrate species on Earth are bought and sold on the wildlife market, according to a study. Scientists from universities in the US and UK, […]
Industry funders can go to great lengths to suppress the findings of academic research when it’s not favourable to the company. from shutterstock.com This article is part of a series on academic freedom where leading academics from around the world write on the state of free speech and inquiry in their region. […]
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Financial conflicts of interest that could bias researchers funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are rare, a report released last week found: About 3% of the 55,600 grants the agency awarded in 2018 involved at least one researcher reporting such a conflict. But […]
Reference Article: What impeachment means in the U.S. and how it works. Impeachment means filing legal charges against an elected official. A whistleblower report in September 2019 alleged that Trump (shown here on the phone) asked the president of Ukraine during a phone call in July to look for damaging […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain California lawmakers, over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s objections, passed sweeping legislation early Saturday allowing the state to impose strict endangered species protections and water pumping restrictions for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The governor must now decide whether to veto the bill and raise the ire of […]
An image shows the frayed power cable, the only remnant of the observatory. (Image: © Forschungstauchzentraum der CAU) A research station the size of a small car has completely vanished from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. And it looks like the station’s been stolen. The observatory, which was run by […]