Your Top Science Stories for this Week
| | | In his years in the wild, Tim Palmer has roamed forests, glaciers and grasslands. But when he comes to a river, it's like coming home. In this era of unwinding environmental protections, he's also worried … | | |
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| | | New satellite images captured of the Carr and Ranch fires show a thick layer of smoke spreading from the blazes, and smoke from North American wildfires stretching across the country. | | |
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| | | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says forest management should be the focus of preventing destructive wildfires, and that climate change doesn't matter. Scientists and firefighters disagree. | | |
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| | | NASA has launched the Parker Solar Probe on a 7-year mission to explore the mysteries of space weather. In the process, it's going to get closer than any space mission has ever been to the sun. | | |
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| | | Worsening wildfires linked to climate change and forest management policies are causing unprecedented smoke pollution across the West and beyond, creating public health risks and undermining decades of air quality gains. | | |
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| | | As the conflagration of California continues, read a brief history of awareness about climate change, including a long-ago TV special on the weather, written and produced by Hollywood legend Frank Capra. | | |
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| | | Take a guided sunrise walk by Sausal Creek and Little Sulphur Creek to observe sunflowers as they open to face the sun. Saturday August 18, 5:30 - 10:30. Free Admission. | | |
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