Science

BP profits drop as it says it will reset strategy

Tom Espiner Business reporter Getty Images Oil giant BP has said it will “fundamentally reset”
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Abortion Provider Won’t Be Extradited to Louisiana, N.Y. Governor Says

Louisiana officials seeking to prosecute a New York doctor who sent abortion medication to a
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Shell ignored warnings of spill clean-up ‘scam’, whistleblower tells BBC

Simi Jolaoso BBC News, Niger Delta Getty Images A BBC investigation has uncovered allegations that
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California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says

The warnings, on thousands of products sold in California, are stark. “Use of the following
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Avian flu outbreaks see 1.8 million farmed birds culled

Almost 1.8 million farmed and captive birds have been culled in the past three months
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Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine
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London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement

Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Tony Jolliffe/ BBC The wall is 2,000 years old and
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Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval

President Trump’s order that the United States exit the World Health Organization could undo programs
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The search for rare flowers lost from history

Helen Briggs BBC environment correspondent•@hbriggs Getty Images Yellow trumpet-shaped daffodils are a familiar sight in
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Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island

Helen Hays, an intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to
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