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Spending cuts and directives questioning the reality and urgency of climate change have marked quick shifts in U.S. science policy.

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With journalists struggling to get people to take warnings about climate change and fascism seriously, a filmmaker stepped in. 2073 combines dystopian fiction with real-life footage from the world ...

Field Museum scientists get their hands dirty and their feet wet in service of conserving the natural world, promoting cultural understanding, and learning more about life on earth. In the Abbott Hall ...

The world’s top ten richest got a collective $157 billion poorer during the month of March, their fortunes dragged down by tumbling U.S. stocks amid uncertainty about the impact of the Trump ...