Congress failed to pass legislation to compensate those poisoned by nuclear weapons activities. Meanwhile, money is flowing ...

As soon as Elon Musk’s secretive DOGE wrecking crew started its government demolition project, WIRED’s reporters were ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

The critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector.

Peter Hitchcock is a professor of Earth and atmospheric science at Cornell University.

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from the University of L’Aquila, in Italy, in 2018. He moved to Cornell in the ...

Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He also writes popular science books with his wife Kelly, including the recent book A City on Mars. He illustrated ...

As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...