According to "The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change," which involves the University of Exeter, countries and cities are responding to the growing threat that... more

Most of the cities in Michigan will be dealing with harsh consequences of climate change, and vulnerable groups who are disproportionately affected... more

What will the planet look like if climate change continues unabated? Experts have weighed in on consequences that include more... more

President Donald Trump says he went through a ‘very routine physical’ when he went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday, but complained that first lady Melania Trump and staff... more

If not for Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump would not be in the White House today. True/false? That's for others to judge but it's probably true, say two Australian linguists... more

The presence of technology startups can drive economic growth for their home cities. So how can cities better appeal to entrepreneurs? A new study shows the... more

The presence of technology startups can drive economic growth for their home cities. So how can cities better appeal to entrepreneurs? A new study from the... more

Senate lawmakers are advancing the nomination of President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration more

Discover our week through the lens (25-29 November 2019). more

White House officials said Wednesday President Donald Trump will meet with experts, advocates and industry representatives on the problem of underage vaping later this... more

Trump’s pick to lead FDA sidesteps questions on future of proposed ban on vaping flavors more

Analysis of more than 29,000 adults listed on the national heart transplant registry from 2006 to 2015 shows... more

The research, published in Nature Sustainability, analyzed data collected from 48 metropolitan areas in the United States, including New York, Boston, Minneapolis and Atlanta, which showed a positive correlation between ridership, residential density, and the convenience of using... more

President Donald Trump is backing away from a ban on most flavored e-cigarettes popular with teens more

The Trump administration unlawfully excluded millions of tons of some of the most dangerous materials in public use from a safety review, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. more

A federal judge in New York has struck down a new Trump administration rule that could open the way for more health care workers to refuse to participate in abortions... more

Health advocates are encouraging President Donald Trump to move forward with a federal ban on thousands of flavors used in in e-cigarettes more

Mobility is essential to urban life. It contributes to people's ability to access work, food, education, leisure and more. It also contributes to climate change. more

The level of water stored by Australia's capital cities has steadily fallen over the last six years. They are now collectively at 54.6% of capacity—a decline of 30%... more

Cities around the world are facing major challenges. Industrialised nations are experiencing epidemics of chronic diseases like diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and dementia, and it would be all too easy to... more

A pair of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has used satellite observations as a way to measure the lifetime of nitrogen oxide (NOx) levels... more

The federal government is suing a Little Rock-based insurance company over the firing of a worker who had just delivered a child more

House Democrats are poised to pass sweeping legislation to lower drug prices using strategies President Donald Trump has endorsed. A Trump aide urged the... more

President Donald Trump heard opposing viewpoints Friday in the debate over youth vaping, but offered no insight into where he would ultimately come down on the issue after promising two... more

President Donald Trump donates his 3rd-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic more

A few hundred yards from the Mexican border in southern Arizona lies a quiet pond, about the size of two football fields, called Quitobaquito.... more

The first appearance of bright green leaves heralds the start of spring. But a new study shows that urbanization shifts... more

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the more than 1,000 surgical patients who may have been exposed to deadly infections at a northern Indiana hospital more

Equilibrium climate sensitivity -- how sensitive the Earth's climate is to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide -- may be underestimated in individual climate models, according to a team of climate... more

Equilibrium climate sensitivity—how sensitive the Earth's climate is to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide—may be underestimated in individual climate models, according to a team of climate scientists. more