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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy intends to ask all agency leaders to identify political tampering in science-based policies and decisions over the past four years.

In Houston’s poorest neighborhoods, an unfamiliar winter storm stoked a familiar anguish, one fueled by recurring floods and what residents see as a pattern of neglect.

In a country that suffered the harshest wildfires in its recorded history just a year ago, the deluge has become another awful milestone.

The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away some sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming.

Frigid temperatures last month froze pipelines and forced companies to flare vast amounts of planet-warming gases that they suddenly had nowhere to send.

Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate scientist, will fill a newly created job of climate adviser to NASA, in a prominent example of Biden’s pledge to focus on climate policy.

Matt Leacock, the inventor of the hit board game Pandemic, has spent the past year making a game about an even weightier subject.

In rejecting a request from some provinces to strike down national carbon pricing, the court declared that the measure meets an important national need.

A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.

Pescatarians take note: Farmed fish are eating more veggies and less wild fish, according to new research. That’s good news for nature.

There were only about 72,000 bald eagles in the lower 48 states in 2009. Researchers say the population is now above 300,000.

A key conservation group counted the continent’s elephants as two species for the first time, highlighting the dire threat to forest elephants.

The agency said it would carry out an accounting of political interference in science, an unusually public act that Biden administration officials said was needed to restore trust in the agency’s decisions.

Democrats hope to wipe out some of the executive-branch policies enacted in the last days of the Trump administration.

President Biden is planning a huge economic program that would represent a fundamental shift in the way Democrats treat the environment: Climate change would not be a side issue.

With climate concerns growing, steel companies face an inevitable crunch. ArcelorMittal sees solutions, but the costs are likely to run into tens of billions of dollars in Europe alone.

The president’s plan, worth up to $4 trillion, represents a fundamental shift in the way Democrats talk about tackling climate change: It’s no longer a side issue.

The proposal being prepared by the White House is intended to begin grappling with a number of big issues that President Biden focused on during the campaign.

The Senate leader is objecting to a plan that would raise costs for some of his constituents by bringing flood insurance rates in line with climate risks.

Desecrated by plunderers, threatened by floodwaters and largely overshadowed by their Egyptian counterparts, Sudan’s ancient archaeological sites may finally be poised to receive broader recognition.