Critics of the law, including chemical companies and energy companies, say the process is often too cumbersome and that opponents can delay projects for years in court, raising costs or blocking them entirely. The lawsuits recently slowed down the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, two projects the President supported. …

A 15-year-old boy died of bubonic plague in western Mongolia, health officials said. The teenager caught the often fatal plague after hunting and eating a groundhog in Gobi-Altai province, according to the Mongolian Ministry of Health. Two other teens were being treated with antibiotics after also consuming the large ground …

Asteroid 2020ND is a truly monstrous space rock, measuring 170 meters, and it will get close to Earth in a few days. The massive space rock is almost 1.5 times the size of the London Eye, which is 135 meters high. And NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have …

But the Washington Mystics star, who has battled Lyme disease for years, also wonders how his body would react if he contracted Covid-19 while playing. However, Delle Donne, 30, said in a statement that her personal doctor had told her that she is at high risk. The panel of doctors …

Last chance: sign up for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. We are approaching the computational limits of deep learning. That’s according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Underwood International College and the University of Brasilia, who found in a recent study that …