• What is an atmospheric river? A hydrologist explains the good, the bad and how they're changing

    What is an atmospheric river? A hydrologist explains the good, the bad and how they're changing

    Feb 03, 2024 07:53 PM EDT

    ... my colleagues at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California, San Diego, work on improving atmospheric river forecasts and predictions. Water managers need to be able to regulate reservoirs and figure out how much water they can ...

  • January hiring gains surprisingly robust

    January hiring gains surprisingly robust

    Feb 02, 2024 02:13 PM EDT

    ... Jerome Powell saying “the economy is performing well, the labor market remains strong.” The Fed made clear that while it’s nearing a long-awaited shift toward cutting interest rates, it’s in no hurry to do so. To fight inflation, the Fed raised its benchmark rate 11 times beginning ...

  • White House halts major liquid natural gas project and new exports over climate concerns

    White House halts major liquid natural gas project and new exports over climate concerns

    Jan 29, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... shift. So will this one specific action change that? No.But it is -- it does seem like it will -- it has really created a big shift in this one piece of the U.S. fossil fuel picture. I would say that we have seen big fights from the environmental group ...

  • Pakistani artist finds success painting what he’s lived, felt and feared

    Pakistani artist finds success painting what he’s lived, felt and feared

    Jan 23, 2024 11:20 PM EDT

    Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor saw his career take off after he made a sudden shift to painting what he’s lived, felt and sometimes even feared. He gave special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston a tour of his ongoing exhibit for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. ... Amna ...

  • Republicans pause effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, say they are talking with his attorneys

    Republicans pause effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, say they are talking with his attorneys

    Jan 16, 2024 10:34 PM EDT

    ... the Oversight committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary panel, had said in a statement Friday that they were “heartened” by the shift from Hunter Biden’s legal team.Until last week, Hunter Biden had defended his lack of compliance with the GOP-issued subpoena, which ordered ...

  • New book 'Eve' dispels myths about human evolution and details female body's role

    New book 'Eve' dispels myths about human evolution and details female body's role

    Jan 15, 2024 11:15 PM EDT

    Jeffrey Brown: Bohannon's book, which synthesizes the work of hundreds of scientists, many of them women, raises numerous such examples. But it also raises critical implications for women's health today and addresses the so-called male norm that has traditionally guided medical science. Cat Bohannon: That, for a ...

  • FDA says Florida can import prescription drugs from Canada

    FDA says Florida can import prescription drugs from Canada

    Jan 05, 2024 07:00 PM EDT

    ... Democratic President Joe Biden has backed such programs as a way to lower prices, signing an executive order in 2021 that directed the FDA to work with states on imports. The policy change represented a shift after years of successful lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry, which said imports would expose ...

  • Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher, star of 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

    Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher, star of 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

    Dec 13, 2023 05:16 PM EDT

    ... most of the 1990s as the brooding detective. "If I do it too long then I'll stop really searching and probing inside my own work," he told the AP in 1998. "That's just a great danger. I think I'm going to escape that trap, and get an ...

  • At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense

    At COP28, pageantry is over and negotiations get intense

    Dec 08, 2023 08:20 PM EDT

    ... no return with more warming. COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber said he was “quite positive, hopeful and optimistic” that the summit could bring a “paradigm shift centered around and based on the science.” Members of the four pairs of high level special teams — who will work with negotiators from nearly ...

  • College leaders face congressional hearing over antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus

    College leaders face congressional hearing over antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus

    Dec 05, 2023 11:30 PM EDT

    ... the Workforce about the protests that erupted after the October 7 attack and Israel's response. Geoff Bennett reports. ... Geoff Bennett: We're going to shift our focus now to the heated debate on many college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war and concerns over incidents of violence, threats and ...