A team of researchers tried to gauge public perceptions of climate activists and faith in humanity’s ability...
Climate Change
Carbon dioxide makes up less than one-twentieth of 1% of Earth’s atmosphere. How does this relatively scarce...
We need innovative legal and policy solutions to tackle the problems caused by climate change. In a...
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such...
We have all the technologies needed to make the electric grid run on renewables and lower pollution....
To meet that temperature target, global greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by 40% to 50%...
Some climate scientists have spoken out about the dangers of climate change. But a new study shows...
An exploration at what helps us thrive in the face of floods, droughts, fires and other disruptions...
Plants flower earlier, and insects – birds’ food – develop earlier. Viktoriia Radchuk, an evolutionary ecologist at Berlin’s Leibniz...
The consequences of the “reprobate’s” failure to change is not abstract at all; it’s happening now. By...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...
Amino acid is the building block of life and researchers are aiming to use them as the...
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns, yields of some crops are increasing while others decline....
A conceptual sculpture made entirely of ice brought attention to global warming and redefined monuments as ephemeral...
Big relief groups often leave poor and rural areas on their own. By Warren Alan Tidwell Recently,...
Renewable wind and solar energy, along with a booming natural gas industry, continue to win the battle...
A Native American protestor at the People’s Climate March in Washington, DC in April, 2017. Source: Nexus Media...
Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
Instead of fighting it, we should embrace the desire for economic growth and direct its path. By...
From occupying House offices to suing the federal government, young people are exploring creative strategies to spur...
While the president chased after his wall, the real national emergency was people dying in extreme weather....
Life-threatening cold temperatures in the central US are caused by changes in wind circulation in the Arctic that bring...
These industries are among the country’s worst water polluters. By Jasmine Spearing-Bowen and Karl Schneider In Ringwood,...
The Trump administration wants to end federal protection under the Clean Water Act for many small streams...
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no...
There are over 100 species of wild coffee, but only a few supply the world’s morning caffeine...
From bird songs to wind patterns, sound is a key but often underappreciated element of natural places....
Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal. By Charles...
Geographical consultations with shamans showed the relationship between imperialism, exploration, and indigenous environmental knowledge. By and large,...