Jun 12 Watch 4:14 COVID-19, climate change, China: Biden reaffirms America's global role at the G7 By PBS NewsHour President Joe Biden made his first foreign trip as president to the U.K. for the G-7 summit where he was welcomed by world leaders amid talk of “shared values.” In a bid to move past the Trump-era, President Biden reaffirmed… Continue watching
Jun 11 Bold single-use plastic ban kicks Europe's plastic purge into high gear By Paul Hockenos, Yale Environment 360 As part of a broader effort to create a circular economy that reduces waste and greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union will ban a host of throwaway plastic items next month and is working to create an expansive and lucrative… Continue reading
Jun 11 How 'prebunking' can fight fast-moving vaccine lies By Laura Santhanam Research shows false news spreads six times faster than the truth, and information about COVID-19 vaccines is not immune to this problem. That is why public health officials are exploring ways to get ahead of those lies through a social… Continue reading
Jun 11 Photos show Chinese rover on dusty, rocky Martian surface By Associated Press China's space agency said the Zhurong rover placed a remote camera a short distance away to take a group portrait. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: How and when to see the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas For much of the eastern half of North America, a partial eclipse will be visible on Thursday between about 5 and 6:30 a.m, turning the sun into a kind of crescent at dawn. Continue reading
Jun 08 How NASA is hunting for signs of life on Mars By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Researchers hope to gain a better sense of whether primordial life once existed on our celestial neighbor, and how technology may pave the way for astronauts to sustain their own lives during future voyages to the Red Planet. Continue reading
Jun 08 WATCH: Bill Nye testifies before Congress about impacts of climate change on homeland security By Associated Press Bill Nye testified before Congress about impacts of climate change on homeland security. Continue reading
Jun 08 Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem about an hour later. Continue reading
Jun 07 Carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached 50% higher than when the industrial age began. And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientists say. Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 5:50 A 'Hail Mary' to save some species of birds in Maryland By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo On Maryland’s eastern shore, small islands used by birds for nesting are disappearing. That coincides with a steep drop in several species of colonial nesting birds in the state. But this spring, in what's being described as a ‘Hail Mary’,… Continue watching