April 8, 2021 Bill Gates support for 'bonkers' study of dimming the sun is 'grossly irresponsible:' Author Microsoft founder Bill Gates is throwing financial support behind the development of a sun-dimming technology that aims to reflect sunlight out of Earth’s atmosphere, thereby triggering a global cooling reaction.
April 7, 2021 NASA gets first weather report from Mars rover landing site Engineers at NASA have received the first weather report from Mars' Jezero Crater, where the agency's Perseverance rover landed in February.
April 1, 2021 South Dakota firefighters work to contain wildfires that closed Mt. Rushmore South Dakota firefighters battling a blaze on Black Hills, which briefly forced the closure of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes, made progress overnight.
March 20, 2021 Scientists discover Antarctic marine life trapped under ice for half a century German researchers have uncovered marine life along the Antarctic seafloor for the first time in decades after a massive iceberg calved from the Antarctic Ice Sheet last month.Â
March 19, 2021 DC judge dismisses Penn State climate professor's defamation case against National Review A Washington, D.C. judge on Friday dismissed the defamation case that Penn State professor Michael Mann filed against the conservative magazine National Review in 2012 over a blog post that called his infamous "hockey stick graph" "deceptive" and "fraudulent."
March 17, 2021 John Kerry caught maskless on flight, American Airlines 'looking into' apparent COVID violation Climate czar John Kerry was caught not wearing his mask while reading a book on an American Airlines flight in lieu of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mandate requiring masks on flights.
March 15, 2021 Biden nominee Deb Haaland confirmed as secretary of the interior The Senate voted Monday to confirm Deb Haaland as secretary of the interior, filling a position that will play a critical role in implementing President Biden’s planned shift toward green energy.
March 15, 2021 Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change and cancel culture – here's how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies Across the world, politicians are now promising climate policies costing tens of trillions of dollars – money we don’t have and resources that are desperately needed elsewhere.
March 11, 2021 10 years after Fukushima disaster, cleaning damaged reactors could still take another 3 decades 10 years to the day after Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, experts say cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors will still take another 30 years.
February 23, 2021 Biden says US, Canada 'doubled down' on efforts to fight climate change President Biden hosted his first bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, where the pair pledged to strengthen their partnership and to address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and a middle-class economic recovery as a team.