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Trump Halts Funding to Build More Electric Vehicle Chargers Nationwide

February 7, 2025 3 min read Trump Halts Funding to Build More Electric Vehicle Chargers Nationwide The Trump administration has halted funding for a $5-billion

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Trump Administration Closes Climate Health Office

February 5, 2025 3 min read Trump Administration Shutters Climate Health Office A climate office at the Department of Health and Human Services has been

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Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strike Earth in 2032?

In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4,

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Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat

A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope and a proposed green energy

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Uber Drivers Helped Evacuate L.A. during Wildfires—But Were Left Unprotected

CLIMATEWIRE | James Jordan could work at almost any job in California and be protected by state rules that require companies to give their employees

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Los Angeles Fires Force Us to Confront Our Dystopian Present

January 24, 2025 4 min read We’re Living in a Dystopian Climate Thriller. It’s Time to Rewrite the Ending Decades of warnings went ignored about

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Trump Declares Energy Emergency to Push Excess Fossil Fuel Production

January 21, 2025 4 min read Trump Declares Energy ‘Emergency’ to Justify More Oil and Gas Drilling Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an

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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed, arguing

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Does Fact-Checking Work on Social Media?

January 15, 2025 4 min read Does Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science Says Communication and misinformation researchers reveal the value of fact-checking, where perceived

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U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments

January 10, 2025 3 min read U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments TikTok is on the clock: ByteDance, the app’s China-based owner,