Dave Levitan

Back in the halcyon days of, uh, three weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum was extremely worried about unchecked offshore energy development. In an announcing a collection of policy changes including the termination of designated “Wind Energy Areas” and halting all future offshore wind power lease sales, Burgum said that the move was “about responsible energy growth that works for every American.”

When Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina, its impacts spread far beyond the edges of the storm. To wit: in severely damaging a company called Baxter’s North Cove facility, the entire country lost the biggest source of intravenous and peritoneal dialysis solutions we have. Shortages of these fluids lasted for months, potentially impacting patient care;

There is something comforting to the idea that even within our own little solar system, through which we have sent probes and rovers and other astonishing bits of space tech, there remains a hefty degree of mystery. It is also comforting, though, that our collective ability to penetrate more of those mysteries continues to improve.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration and Florida to effectively start shutting down the concentration camp grimly known as Alligator Alcatraz. According to US District Judge Kathleen Williams, the site, now the subject of numerous complaints and descriptions of what pretty clearly amounts to torture of the people sent there, did not adequately address its potential environmental harms to the Everglades ecosystem and the people who rely on it.

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ASCO has issued a new update to its living guideline regarding therapy for stage IV non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without driver alterations, based on results of three studies published recently....

The number of storms that leap from Category 1 to Category 3 or higher within 36 hours “more than doubled” over a 20-year period.

From effective rain-enhancing technology to a long, secretive history of trying to weaponize storms, there’s fertile ground for misinformation.

ASCO has issued a new clinical practice guideline on the use of systemic therapy for treatment of different types of thyroid cancer, a field that has changed substantially in recent years. 1

ASCO has issued an update to its living guideline on systemic therapies for patients with stage IV NSCLC without driver alterations. 1 The update, which includes a new recommendation regarding the PD-1 inhibitor retifanlimab-dlwr and chemotherapy, follows a recent full update to the guideline published in February 2026. 2