Science

“At the time, it was both safe and popular for Republicans to deny climate change,” one speaker said of previous generations of politicians. “But times are changing.”

Health officials are sounding increasingly urgent alarms about the need for powerful new drugs to treat increasingly resistant infections.

The five-planet spread — of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — can be seen from anywhere on Earth, as long as you have clear skies and a view of the west.

The EPA said levels of the cancer-causing chemicals are “similar to typical background levels,” but have not yet released any data.

While the study finds a general increase in supercell counts, what it mostly finds are large shifts in where and when they hit — generally, more east of Interstate 35, which runs through east central Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and fewer to the west.

A violent tornado with a 59-mile path struck Alabama and Mississippi, where the predominantly Black community of Rolling Fork was hard hit.

This year, the industry will reach a milestone — 1 terawatt, or 1,000 gigawatts, of wind energy installed worldwide, says the Global Wind Energy Council.

Business groups, labor unions and others are sounding off against state GOP efforts to bar public pensions from making environmentally and socially conscious investments.

Most of California is no longer in drought, but water shortage concerns remain for some areas of the state.

While Xcel Energy reported the leak of water containing tritium to state and federal authorities in late November, the spill had not been made public before Thursday.