The International Energy Agency keeps predicting a decline in global coal use. But thanks to soaring electricity demand in China and India, coal consumption will hit another new record this year: 8.8 billion tons
Formaldehyde often poses the greatest risk in the one place people feel safest: inside their homes. The EPA has known for more than four decades that formaldehyde is toxic, but the companies that rely on it have thwarted the agency’s attempts to limit the chemical
After a careful study of 31,464 satellite records compiled over the last twenty years, a team of scientists and mathematicians from Thailand has announced that the temperatures in Greenland have been declining for at least twenty years
We often have occasion to complain about the tendency of climate scientists to adjust historical surface thermometer data downwards, thus raising the amount of alleged warming since the early 20th century
Having face-planted brutally in the 2024 American election with condescending lectures to the rubes about how the experts are always right, the chattering classes are seeking to undo the damage with condescending lectures to the rubes about how the experts are always right
The most complicated object in the known Universe is bound to inspire some heated debate, but neuroscientists are now arguing over a basic aspect of the brain we thought we’d figured out
When COVID-19 arrived in the spring of 2020, I was 49-years-old and about to turn 50. I’d spent the better part of 2019 living on the island of Maui, surfing every day, and I felt as strong and vital as ever