I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods ...

A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer ...

As the climate warms and nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in cool, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe will likely ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Fee Smulders measures how far the seagrass has grown on Bonaire. Credit: Marjolijn Christianen The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical ...

From droughts to disease, coffee and chocolate are under threat, but scientists and farmers are working together to keep these daily treats on the table.By Tom CassauwersIn the hills above Matagalpa, ...

Researchers have found six steps to overturn unfair economic and social systems that leave disadvantaged people at risk of climate disasters.