President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Friday evening that he would nominate Marty Makary to lead the FDA. Makary is a ...

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Nov. 25 marks the beginning of the last meeting that the United Nations Environment Programme has scheduled to negotiate a ...

Algenesis submerged shoes made with its biodegradable polyurethane foam in the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate their ...

Microplastics are everywhere, from the tallest mountains to the deepest depths of the ocean. Where do they come from, and how ...

To color these pieces of silk with aniline blue dye, Gracile Roxas had to do her homework. Roxas, a textile conservator who ...

Microplastics are not a new problem. But scientists are just beginning to understand their behavior and properties. By ...

Corals have been under a lot of stress lately. These marine invertebrates—relatives of jellyfish—are pretty picky when it comes to temperature. That’s why rising ocean temperatures over the ...

The research “gives a nice, scientific explanation at a range of length scales,” says Gareth McKinley, a rheologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved with the ...

At the risk of going dormant under incoming US president Donald J. Trump, the Loan Programs Office (LPO) of the US Department ...

The press conferences at COP29 are where high-ranking ministers, diplomats, and advocacy group leaders make hard-hitting ...