Environment

Early decision-making and community involvement are key factors

Conservators seek ways to stop cultural artifacts from oozing and crumbling to dust

Scientists are tweaking microbial enzymes that break down polymers

Alumni from a Howard University program are now leaders at federal science agencies. Can academia follow its lead?

Elimination of dozens of trust funds was supposed to help fight the pandemic—not invest in fossil fuels

Urban integrated field labs would incorporate environmental justice as "a key tenet" in research

Matt Kirwan’s work has provided some hope amid dire forecasts of coastal wetland loss

Ministry of Foreign Affairs says “forced” consensus on climate change is not favorable to Russia

Automation could aid biodiversity monitoring

Finding could have wide-ranging ramifications for weather patterns

Two places hold the record for highest surface temperatures on the planet

Researchers are learning how avulsions occur on rivers with silted-up beds

Growing use of ship exhaust scrubbers has increased marine discharge of compounds

Whistleblowers cite eyewitness reports, data anomalies, and outsize effects in studies, but researchers deny wrongdoing

Upcoming presidential election could stall efforts to restore Lake Urmia

New National Research and Innovation Agency will have broad powers to fund, execute, and control science