The past year was a shock to the U.S. higher education system. The coming year may see even more jolts. Administration ...

Solar eclipses are the result of a pleasant astronomical coincidence. Although the Sun’s diameter is almost 400 times that of the Moon’s, the Sun is also almost 400 times farther away, so the two ...

In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump worked across agencies to roll back practical and political momentum to address the climate crisis. Experts say the array of administration ...

Phoenix’s Piestewa Peak was renamed in 2008 to honor Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die serving in the U.S. military. Previously, the mountain’s name contained an offensive slur for ...

On 24 November 1922, the Colorado River Commission officially allocated water rights to the seven U.S. states of the Colorado River Basin. The Colorado River Compact and subsequent agreements, ...

Example time slices of geomagnetic field intensity at Earth’s surface over the past 100 thousand years (ka) from the global GGF100k model show the field variability. This includes structures ...

Canada’s 2023 wildfire season was the most destructive ever recorded, burning an area twice the size of Portugal. This photo shows an experimental forest fire in northwestern Canada, ignited to ...

Meltwater pours from a 130-meter-wide waterfall over the edge of the Nansen ice shelf in Antarctica on 12 January 2014. Credit: Won Sang Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute Among the most visible ...

Data from the New Horizons spacecraft showed Arrokoth to have a red coloring. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Far from the Sun lurk icy ...

Both on the campaign trail and during his time in office, President Donald Trump has spoken about wanting clean air and water for Americans. He even established a Make America Beautiful Again ...

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The site of the incipient landslide near to Farwell Canyon Bridge on the Chilcotin River in Canada. Image from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government. There are concerns about the potential impact of an ...