What Happens When Social Scientists Critique Their Peers’ Work?
Polite entrenchment, at least in one recent case.
How to Convince Fire Departments to Let Small Wildfires Burn
Science shows that controlled, prescribed fires can help prevent larger, more destructive fires.
How Many Lives Will Be Saved by Banning Trans Fats?
Thousands, and the laws will likely have the greatest impact among nations' poorest citizens.
How America’s Prison System Punishes Women and Families
A new report counts the costs that women, children, and families bear when a loved one gets incarcerated.
See an Open Northwest Passage From Space
This month, the Arctic will likely have some of the lowest levels of ice on record.
This Year’s Sierra Nevada Snowpack Was the Lowest It’s Been in 500 Years
A major source of fresh water for California hit a historic nadir this spring.
Beijing Babies Show the Importance of Clean Air
The Chinese government's pollution-cutting efforts for the 2008 Olympics improved birth weights in the city, a new study finds.
Why Policy Ideas for Climate Change Don’t Work
There's a lack of diversity among those who create the world's "consensus documents" on climate change.
Gathering Political Support for Heroin Addiction’s Most Effective Treatment
Seeing opioid addiction as a disease, instead of a moral failing, helps.