People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when ...

Dominic Boyer is a professor of anthropology at Rice University. In Floods like Hurricane Helene’s, Toxic Chemicals Are a ...

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Phylicia Lee Brown is a research scientist in urban-environmental sociology at Rice University. In Floods like Hurricane ...

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can ...

Polls show an increased number of Black women voters back Kamala Harris. Her emphasis on maternal mortality, reproductive ...

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia ...

A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” partly explains Everest’s impressive height ...

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images ...

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice ...

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to ...