Science Archive
Archives for June 2022


West Virginia v. EPA confirms that the GOP-controlled Supreme Court will veto any federal regulation it wants.


The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability to address climate change. That still won’t save faltering coal plants.


The youngest children may prove to be the hardest to vaccinate.


West Virginia v. EPA is part of a bigger legal crusade to destroy environmental protections.

A series about the collateral health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in communities around the US.

Pandemic-related hate crimes against Asian Americans have left many feeling unsafe in public. The consequences of missed health care will have lasting effects.


If there was life on Mars billions of years ago — even just microbial life — it could change our understanding of how life begins.

America’s 1.7 million incarcerated people have a constitutional right to medical treatment. During the pandemic, many of them say they didn’t get it in time.


Making sense of the political theater over gas prices.


Quality sex education will be more important than ever. But it too faces challenges.


A look at how high gas prices are hurting workers and what to do about it.


Summer started with an oppressive heat wave. Get used to it.


Even a Wall Street-endorsed climate rule is facing serious headwinds.


Receiving signals from extraterrestrial civilizations could pose an existential risk. Really.


The flood destroyed homes and bridges, and threatens the region’s economy. But the animals are doing just fine.