Page 18 - Change Research Program News Today

In this quarterly news roundup on issues of scientific integrity, Liz Borkowski describes the CDC's potentially misleading new COVID-19 monitoring, bullying at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the state of federal scientific integrity policies.

For the first time, the report includes a chapter devoted to the social aspects of climate mitigation

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has allowed for the carefully regulated release of over 2.4 million genetically-modified mosquitoes in California and Florida.

NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise seen over the past 100 years.

Natural disasters in the U.S. have caused an average of almost $150 billion in damages per year over the past five years. These costs are likely to...

The average temperature on Earth lies somewhere around 57 degrees Fahrenheit (13.9 degrees Celsius).

The High Country Conservation Center plans to develop climate solutions for underserved communities using a $75,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The conservation center found out that it would receive the agency’s environmental justice...

Sea levels along US coastlines will rise between 10 to 12 inches (25 to 30 cm) on average above the current levels by 2050, according to a new inter-agency report.

Thursday, March 10, 2022 1-2 PM Eastern Time REGISTER **Closed captioning will be available.

With all due respect (after all, I’m one of our species) our dysfunctional, non-scientific, reactions to the ongoing COVID and climate change challenges we face cause me to wonder how we managed to get this far along on evolution’s path. Willful...