Government

Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?

Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.

While control of Congress remains unsettled, other races around the country reveal a growing — if precarious — tilt toward climate as a priority.

There’s still time to find out how to cast your ballot, even if you’re dealing with other recovery efforts.

Voting on election day is job one, but the planet needs your civic commitment every other day of the year, too.

Both approval and ranked choice voting put fire under the feet of elected officials to do the right thing for the environment — or risk being voted out.