News in Brief Two Years After Announcing It Would Stop Showing Elephants, the Ringling Bros. Circus Closes The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will cease operations, owners announced this weekend. The 145-year-old business… See More
News in Brief Humans Are Igniting the Vast Majority of Wildfires in the U.S. And as climate change leaves vast swaths of the country warmer and more arid, human-created blazes will only… See More
News in Brief Politics & Law Previous Site Sections Criminalizing the Science You Don’t Cotton To Researchers fear that a lawsuit aimed at the developer of the "hockey stick" temperature map is actually a political salvo at science. See More