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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration includes the National Hurricane Center, which researches hurricanes and provides weather updates and forecasts for the dangerous storms. Employees at the agency are worried the Trump administration will cut support for their work.

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  • Climate

Trump officials signal potential changes at NOAA, the weather and climate agency

Federal workers at the home agency for the National Weather Service are concerned about a potential overhaul by Trump officials focused on cutting government costs.

February 16, 2025
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  • Alejandra Borunda,
  • Michael Copley,
  • and 1 more
One of the activities at Moss Appreciation Week is a build-your-own-terrarium workshop.

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  • Environment

'Moss Appreciation Week': a lot of celebration for a very little plant

Moss Appreciation Week is packed with events both scientific... and also silly. Moss walks, moss talks, moss movies, crafting moss-themed Valentines, and a "gastropod derby" with snails and slugs (for whom moss is a nice moist microclimate).

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Deena Prichep
Kamilla Souza getting ready to study the brain of this beached whale.

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  • Science

'Give me the head!' Neuroscientist inspires whale and dolphin research in Brazil

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
The aurora borealis, commonly called the northern lights, illuminate the sky over a horse pasture in Mercer, Maine on May 10, 2024.

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  • National

A Valentine's weekend aurora may be visible in the skies of the northern U.S.

During Valentine's Day weekend, northern parts of America, including Maine, may have a chance of seeing an aurora. But space weather scientists warn that the chances of this happening are slim.

February 15, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
Members of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team training for a radiological contamination scenario.

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  • Politics

Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons

The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, stands at right with red leg tag next to her new partner as they admire their recently laid egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 27, 2024.

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  • Science

At 74, Wisdom the albatross is welcoming new motherhood once again

The Laysan Albatross was first banded (or marked) in Hawaii in 1956. Meaning, she could be even older than the current estimate of 74.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
A worker picks roses at a flower farm in Chia, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on Jan. 29.

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  • Environment

The truth behind your Valentine's Day flowers

The beauty of bouquets comes with a cost to the cloud forests of Colombia, the largest exporter of flowers and foliage to the United States.

February 14, 2025
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  • Ruth Sherlock
A screenshot of a video from the Associated Press shows Adrián Simancas kayaking in the Strait of Magellan, moments before a whale surfaced and briefly engulfed him.

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  • Animals

Did a whale swallow a kayaker? The truth behind the viral video

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
People walk past the U.S. Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

Sweeping cuts hit recent federal hires as Trump administration slashes workforce

Employees across several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education and Department of Energy, have all been affected, with many being given notice Thursday.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Geoff Brumfiel,
  • and 2 more
Mars, from composite of photos from three cameras from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) experiment, obtained on May 12, 2003.

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  • Space

Is Trump the president who will truly set a course for Mars?

Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting Americans back to the moon in the near future will be challenging enough.

February 13, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A basketball sits on the court during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Jan. 21 in Ames, Iowa.

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  • Science

What an endocrinologist says about the differences between trans, cisgender athletes

What does scientific research show about differences between transgender and cisgender athletes? NPR asks Bradley Anawalt, endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Washington.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel
The diamond ring effect as well as Bailey's Beads are seen as the moon eclipses the sun on April 8, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas.

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  • Science

Sen. Ted Cruz's list of 'woke' science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.

February 13, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
An atmospheric river that hit Los Angeles in February 2024 caused mudslides and flooding, dumping months-worth of rain in a single day. Another one is headed to Southern California now.

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  • Climate

An atmospheric river is coming to California. It could bring risks of debris flows

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently burned areas.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
Hayden Station, a coal-fired power plant, dominates part of the landscape between Hayden and Steamboat Springs in northwest Colorado. The power plant is expected to start shutting down before the end of the decade.

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  • Environment

As coal plants close, Colorado towns consider nuclear waste storage

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge of storing radioactive waste

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Franz
A woman sunbathes on a summer day in Montevideo, Uruguay, in January of 2025. This January was the hottest ever recorded on Earth.

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  • Climate

January wasn't expected to break global temperature records. But it did

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it didn't has climate researchers worried.

February 13, 2025
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  • Alejandra Borunda
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