A few important dynamics are making it easier for young people to launch businesses in rural towns – especially food businesses.
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Cats aren’t the only bird hazard around your home. More than 1 billion birds die each year from hitting windows, often during migration.
Aging infrastructure, transmission bottlenecks and increased demand from data centers are hitting consumers’ wallets.
Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.
A long-time leader of California’s climate efforts explains how governors from Brazil to Indonesia have become the leading edge in fighting climate change. Several are meeting this week in Brazil.
The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
As climate-related disasters grow more frequent and intense, one group remains dangerously underprepared: older adults. Planning should involve the entire family.
Federal regulations govern which pesticides can be used and give specific directions for applying them. Ignoring those directions is a violation of federal law.
The Trump administration’s plan would leave many endangered species at much greater risk.
Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness holds in the nation’s history and imagination.
The problem of high energy prices and rising numbers of people unable to afford them isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
The administration wants to cut funding for programs that help communities adapt to wildfire risk, sea-level rise and invasive species, among many other risks.
Insects are often under pressure from several threats at once, from pesticides to habitat loss to pollution.
Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.
From sending more pollen airborne to breaking up pollen grains, which lets them penetrate deeper into your lungs, the wind is not the allergy sufferer’s friend.
A meteorologist explains three essential components of NOAA hurricane data collection that forecasters everywhere rely on yet are being targeted for federal cuts.
Dating back centuries, a legal principle declares certain natural resources must be protected by the government for present and future generations to benefit from.
There are elements of these ancient, distant George Lucas stories that might seem like science fiction but are, in fact, science reality.
Engineers use giant fans in the Wall of Wind test facility to study the destructive ways these powerful winds can interact with tall buildings.
Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.
The Florida Wildlife Corridor, which turns 15 this year, connects habitats across the state for panthers, bears, sparrows and other species.
Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, and upheaval at USAID may slow it more.
India has said it would suspend crucial treaty governing river flows in disputed Kashmir. Pakistan has said any disruption to water supply would be ‘an act of war.’
Battery management systems now blend physics and machine learning, delivering real‑time insights to boost safety, efficiency and lifespan even under heavy use.
Alaska produces a lot of crude oil, but many of the state’s utilities, businesses and homes run on natural gas, which is in dwindling supply near population centers.