Policy

Fast fashion may seem cheap, but it’s taking a costly toll on the planet—and on millions of young people

The Klamath River was a tragic example of degraded wildlife habitat. The removal of its dam demonstrates how people can halt the decline of, and even restore, wildlife

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a complicated abortion landscape post-Dobbs

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly convicted

A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

Prominent vaccine skeptic RFK, Jr., is a proven menace to public health. But with a bird flu outbreak looming, he is poised to take a perch atop the federal public health enterprise

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development

The fossil-fuel industry argues that we can’t live without its deadly products. It is wrong

Four counties in Florida that voted for Trump also voted to conserve open space, reduce flood damage and protect habitat

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is facing closure. Shutting it down would be a loss to science as a whole

Federal health scientists voice concern over an anticipated takeover by medical skeptics in Trump’s second administration

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security and its disaster agency has said people aren’t driving temperature increases and declined to accept federal climate money for disaster preparedness as governor of South Dakota