Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Science

• Trump's EPA rollbacks: Trading clean air for wealthy plant owners' profits
• Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
• The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice
• New Mexico Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Compel Greater Environmental Regulation under State Constitution
• Trump signs orders lifting regulations on aviation technology and working to boost U.S. drone production
• Climate Change Reporting and Mental Health: Practical Tips for Newsrooms and Journalists
• Biden EPA’s ‘Gold Bars Off the Titanic’ Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg » The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Trump’s EPA plans to claim US power sector emissions are insignificant. It's absurd.
• A new anchor for ocean protection
• EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Chemicals in ICE Facilities
• The Tibetan Plateau is home to the largest store of fresh water outside the Arctic
• Why Trump probably can’t cut Musk loose
• Is Climate Change Destroying the Environment? » The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
• How We Revealed Mega-Polluters Taking Advantage of Green Loans
• A Massachusetts senator wants to limit how far people can travel
• The World Shuns Renewable Energy
• This obscure but powerful “dark roof” lobby may be making your city hotter
• Parenting in the climate crisis: how to raise kids who care about the environment
• The latest example of the slippery slope towards dystopia comes in the form of a whole-genome sequencing company
• If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price
• America’s gas pipeline buildout is mainly for exports—not energy independence
• How 'Equity' debases education in the U.S., says Fyodor Kushnirsky
• The 'Gattaca' future is here
• Here's one Biden climate provision Republicans are unlikely to kill
• Texas Legislature Beats Back Assault on Clean Energy
• Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”
• England’s planning bill has many naysayers. I'm not one of them | Nick WIlliams
• Prepping cities for climate chaos isn't "woke," but Team Trump is killing EPA resiliency grants
• SpaceX becomes world’s largest internet satellite company, launching 406 Starlink satellites in May alone
• Can humor help solve our climate crisis? David Cross sure as fuck hopes so.
• Writers: Washington has largely ignored illegal logging’s role in its fight against transnational criminal organizations
• The faux science of outlawing fossil fuels
• Solar panels that make electricity suitable for the power grid can be easily hacked, remotely disabled or compromised for DDoS attacks
• What hurricane season? FEMA chief flusters staffers by appearing not to know about peak storm period
• Even Trash Isn’t Safe from California’s Regulatory Overkill
• US mayors are making climate action personal—and it’s working
• As the first born, am I the smartest? Maybe – but siblings shape us in far more interesting ways | Imogen West-Knights
• Case Western Reserve Law Review's "Permitting the Future" symposium issues
• Scientists used DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull to create dire wolf pups
• Euclid praised for attempting to prevent illegal dumping | Editorial
• The Supreme Court's latest decision will make it easier to build stuff, good and bad
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz? Good luck!
• Republicans accuse the Government Accountability Office of bias and overstepping its bounds
• Supreme Court unanimously agrees to curb environmental red tape that slows down construction projects
• Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
• Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.
• The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now
• Why Musk is so important
• The Woodside boss’s attacks on my generation are blatant scapegoating – and we see straight through them | Hannah Ferguson
• Fauci Allies Sent Packing » The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• ‘The spin has been wrong’: rock art expert raises concerns over critical report ahead of Woodside decision | Clear Air
• There’s a Surprising Use for the Water You Flush Down the Toilet
• The Guardian view on rising sea levels: adaptation has never been more urgent | Editorial
• Adios, Green New Deal. Welcome, Free-Market Energy Independence
• Climate Change: we're doomed in ten years!
• Another Trump casualty: A tiny office that keeps measurements of the world accurate
• I’m a staunch advocate for keeping everyone’s feet — including the toes — covered at all times
• The Trump EPA's Plan to End Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulation from Stationary Sources
• Liberal Christian Group Urges Legal Warfare Against Fossil Fuels, ‘Climate Disinformation’
• The Consequences of One of Project 2025’s Most Surprising Attacks Are Becoming Clear
• Man-made global warming just is and skeptics are deplorable, but the facts tell a different story
• Do your research and get the neighbours onboard: how to get solar panels on your apartment building in Australia
• Pregnant women in prison aren't getting care, and no one is keeping track
• Paul Larkin: Senate to vote on nullifying EPA’s ‘license to kill’ California’s gas-powered cars
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
• Republicans just killed California’s E.V. mandate. Will they regret it?
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Might Leave You Stranded After a Disaster
• The universe appears to be fine-tuned, says physicist Alan Guth. It isn’t a case of ‘We don’t know, so it must be God’
• For Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum there’s “plenty of time” to solve climate crisis
• The EPA is cracking down on blue state abuses of the Clean Water Act
• Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.
• How to fix California’s self-inflicted homeowner’s insurance crisis
• Keynes’s theory of output as a whole is more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state
• 5 Free Open Source Digital Tools to Combat Disinformation
• Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The Guardian view on protecting the Amazon: forest defenders must have support | Editorial
• Despite a treasure trove of public-facing weather intelligence, Americans may be headed toward the day they have to pay for anything beyond the basics
• Space is the new frontier of geopolitics
• At a Missouri prison, inmates fear for their lives in sweltering cells
• Elon Musk wants to create a permanent human colony on Mars. This plan is scientifically and politically divisive and dangerous
• Elon Musk's SpaceX is in a plum position to dominate space transport and satellite communications
• Alaska Sen. Murkowski is working to preserve some provisions of Biden’s signature climate bill
• Men Love a Big Carbon Footprint - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• How Pope Leo will approach climate change is unclear, but the vibe is positive
• Can the EPA Finesse the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding?
• The sandeel is an unlikely barometer of Brexit benefits
• Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
• A wild project in Iceland could transform how we forecast volcano eruptions
• Trump administration aims to roll back limits on toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water
• After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
• Gavin Newsom wants to make the country's most expensive gas even more expensive
• Richard Dawkins: Why atheism is winning
• Why has an eco-extremist been given a royal seal of approval?
• Joseph Solis-Mullen argues that Schumpeter’s critique of state power is relevant
• Every president since Lyndon Johnson has recognized the security risks of climate change. Then came Trump.
• Climate dogma and the ignorance of experts
• Spain’s grid collapsed in 5 seconds. The U.S. could be next.
• Some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent schools have ditched Honors classes in the name of equity — but it’s a terrible idea