President Donald Trump‘s new wave of firings at independent agencies could spark another legal firestorm over his attempts to leverage his executive branch power. Consumer Product Safety ...

When Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant in 1864 — setting aside the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias — he did so to preserve these lands for “public use, resort ...

The White House effort to scrub government websites of environmental data has researchers and activists trying to recreate several lost mapping tools to protect communities vulnerable to pollution ...

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Trump has already overseen the loss of some 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services since retaking office this year. © noamgalai via Shuttersrock ...

Every complex disease has both genetic and environmental risk factors. Most researchers study these factors separately because of technical challenges and a lack of large, uniform datasets.

Kennedy Jr., such as studies on autism diagnoses, chronic disease improvements and environmental exposures’ intersection with health. “People are frightened,” said Diana Zuckerman ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a plan to slash 20% of the military’s most senior generals and admirals, continuing the purge of military brass under President Donald Trump.

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

The committee is scheduled to begin its markup Tuesday of legislative text that includes energy and environment subtitles. The budget resolution told the panel to find savings and new revenue ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump to purge transgender people from the military in a brief, unsigned order that did not bother to provide any reasoning.