Ashish Jha, the former White House Covid-19 response coordinator, discusses the country's successes and mistakes.

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The COP conference is growing in size, but not in action on climate goals, experts say. A 2021 report suggests reform.

In a bid to unearth its own nickel, lithium, and more, the U.S. is using AI to help zero in on mineral-rich deposits.

Some of the country's wartime environmental catastrophes, scientists say, can be turned into long-term ecological gains.

The Florida law was passed in 2018 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland in which 17 students ...

In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in ...

In the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era ...

Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and a senior editor at Undark.