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Purdue Opioid Settlement on Verge of Collapse after Supreme Court Ruling

The hard-fought settlement of thousands of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma was close to capsizing on Thursday, after the Supreme Court rejected liability protections...

Biden vs. Trump on Climate Policy

This is a very big year for elections around the world, but no election has more potential to affect the planet’s warming climate...

Supreme Court Blocks Biden Plan on Air Pollution

The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines,...

Republicans Used to Love Wind and Solar. That Romance Has Cooled.

Support for wind power and solar energy among Republicans has dropped significantly since 2020, as older Republicans in particular soured on renewable energy...

A Surprising Climate Find

We humans have settled in all sorts of precarious environments: parched deserts, barren tundra, high mountains. None are precarious in quite the same...

Two Killer Asteroids Are Flying by Earth, and You May Be Able to See One

This week, two asteroids — one big enough to destroy a city, and the other so large it could end civilization — are...

Was the Dingo Born to Be Wild?

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions.Dingoes are muscular, graceful canids with pricked...

C.D.C. Scales Back Recommendations for R.S.V. Vaccine

In an unusual move, federal health officials narrowed their recommendations for who should receive the vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus.The Centers for...

If You Give a Frog a Sauna, It Might Fight Off a Deadly Fungus

For decades, a deadly fungal disease has been stalking the world’s amphibians, wiping out frogs, toads and salamanders from the mountain lakes of...

Trump’s War on Clean Energy Would Benefit China, Economists Say

In the race for the White House, former President Donald J. Trump has attacked President Biden’s policies to expand renewable energy as a...

He Monitors Solar Flares. Here’s What Keeps Him Up at Night.

In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a watch for a possible solar storm. A gigantic cluster of spots on the...

The Heat Crisis is a Housing Crisis

Air-conditioning was long considered a luxury in much of the world. Not anymore.Look, for example, at a move earlier this month by the...

Heat Is Killing Thousands, and Big Events Have Not Adjusted

At large events all over the world, the scenes of extreme heat stress are starting to look familiar. Older men, shirts undone, lying...

The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

Eventually, through many years of research, Boston and other scientists revealed that the microbes in Lechuguilla do much more than spit out a...

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