Dismissed EPA science advisers gather in ‘unprecedented’ challenge to Trump administration
Ousted air quality experts stage their own review of agency’s particulate science
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Rick Perry’s most surprising legacy as energy secretary could be bigger science budget
Artificial intelligence became a bigger DOE priority under Perry -
Indonesia’s fires are bad, but new measures prevented them from becoming worse
Policies to preserve and restore waterlogged forest help mitigate blazes, scientists say -
Connecting fragmented pieces of habitat can help endangered species recover
Study finds that “corridors” are much more beneficial than once believed -
‘There’s no scenario that stops sea level rise in this century,’ dire U.N. climate report warns
Warming will drive catastrophic storm surges, slumping permafrost, and shrinking fish in the oceans and poles -
Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show
Even common birds are in steep decline, spurring hunt for causes -
‘A little bit of everything is burning.’: A NASA scientist dissects Amazon fires
Science chats with remote sensing specialist Douglas Morton -
EPA’s controversial ‘secret science’ plan still lacks key details, advisers say
Transparency proposal has been widely lambasted by research groups -
There’s no doubt that Brazil’s fires are linked to deforestation, scientists say
Number of blazes has almost doubled compared with last year, satellite data show -
Scientists say sustainable forestry organizations should lift ban on biotech trees
Prohibition by the Forest Stewardship Council and others has hampered research -
Arctic researchers will lock this ship in ice for a year to study the changing polar region
German icebreaker will lead unprecedented $134 million effort -
Vanishing Arctic ice will open the way for more science voyages, analysis suggests
Vessel traffic in U.S. Arctic has doubled since 2008 -
New Trump rules would curb U.S. endangered species protections
Changes would allow officials to consider costs, and not just science -
Bioenergy plantations could fight climate change—but threaten food crops, U.N. panel warns
IPCC land use report finds large-scale bioenergy troublesome as a carbon removal technology -
Deforestation in the Amazon is shooting up, but Brazil’s president calls the data ‘a lie’
Scientists rush to defend the National Institute for Space Research against political attack -
Major U.S. cities are leaking methane at twice the rate previously believed
New York City, Boston, other East Coast cities annually emit 890,000 tons of the greenhouse gas
