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Lace up those comfortable sneakers, and get out your bug spray and field guides, because we’re about to go birder-watching.

Grant funding by the National Science Foundation has been cut by more than half this year, bringing the foundation’s science funding to its lowest level in decades. Katrina Miller, who covers science ...

In a new memoir, a climate scientist reflects on his journey from a rural village in India to the cutting edge of weather forecasting.