MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning. Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event — whether a drought, wildfire or extreme storm — [...]

Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. This ecosystem service, however, provided by nature to [...]

There’s a lot of hype and speculation about algae as a biofuel source Algae are high on the genetic engineering agenda as a potential source for biofuel, and they should be subjected to independent studies [...]

In horror movies, the scariest moments usually come from the monster you can’t see. So the same goes for real life, or at least online life. Over the past few years, largely out of sight, [...]

Greenland‘s massive ice sheet has melted at a record-setting pace this year–and summer isn’t over yey Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting at a record pace this summer. By Aug. 8, this year’s summer melt [...]

Unfortunately this unique habitat is the latest victim of government budget cuts. Fabien Cousteau paid a visit to Sylvia Earle and the underwater base in danger of losing its funding, and says that the work [...]

Almost all lead is recycled, among the only elements on the periodic table to earn that distinction. With good reason, mind you: the soft metal is a potent neurotoxic known to impact children’s brain development, [...]

A survey of teachers from the United States and Canada found that one out of four educators who used live animals as part of their science curriculum released the organisms into the wild after they [...]

“Skin melanoma is the most lethal of the skin cancers Nature Communications recently published GW research on skin melanoma with newly discovered role for UV and melanin using transgenic HGF melanoma mouse model “This is the first [...]

Humanity may be pushing the planet toward sudden, irreversible ecological changes Human activities are pushing Earth toward a “tipping point” that could cause sudden, irreversible changes in relatively stable conditions that have allowed civilization to [...]

The shrubs that are already there are transforming into trees in just a few decades In just a few decades shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of the warming [...]

Climate scientists think a perfect storm of climate “flips” could cause massive upheavals in a matter of years   The eminent British scientist James Lovelock, back in the 1970s, formulated his theory of Gaia, which [...]