The protein is called CIRBP, and it plays a key role in repairing double-strand breaks in DNA, a type of genetic damage that can cause disease and shorten lifespan in a variety of species, including ...

Americans love beef with the average person eating three hamburgers a week—a choice that’s getting much more expensive. As of ...

On This Week in Water: Renewables overtake coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity, why data centers may be a surprising source of “forever chemicals,” and what happens when La Niña meets ...

Nate McCaffrey wasn’t around in a time people call the “Dirty Thirties”—the Dust Bowl era, when the drought-stricken plains lost tons of topsoil. But he can imagine it. McCaffrey is a farmer in his ...

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

Lakewood, Colorado—Looking for your next read? How about a mystery that delves into a past that perhaps no one has ever heard before. There’s a library that holds those stories—stories of how our ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop an expansion of the immigration detention center called “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, while she considers whether ...

When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...

The report from the Energy Department was submitted as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule last week to repeal the Endangerment Finding made in 2009 that said greenhouse ...

In good news last week, Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the High Seas Treaty that seeks to protect marine biodiversity in international waters—those beyond the jurisdiction of any country. The two ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...

The tariff wars started by President Trump are likely to speed up seabed mining of metals in the Pacific Ocean, which could endanger marine environments. A U.S. company called Impossible Metals ...