Stories by David Biello

Efforts to combat climate change continue to grow. But are they big enough? Or fast enough?

The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts

When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives--and even neuroscience--to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change

Is there a better way to compile and review climate science?

Humans can capture and release CO2 efficiently, so why can't power plants?

ARPA-E, the U.S.'s energy transformation agency, is doling out funds for greener power, but is it too conservative?

One of the mostly widely used weed killers, atrazine, may be disrupting male frogs' sexual development--even reversing it

Renewables and natural gas may dominate the generation of electricity during the next three decades

Ongoing problems with nuclear waste might resurrect plans for reactors that would leave less of it

Novel materials might make harvesting sunlight for electricity affordable

Sea levels can rise and fall fast, even during an ice age, according to new research

Recent scandals have undermined the credibility of the international scientific body, yet the scientific evidence for climate change remains as strong as ever

Satellite data reveals that demand from urban areas may be the primary driver of the loss of trees--a shift from the patterns of the past

An ancestral mutation in the direction of thriving under drier conditions than their amphibian peers has allowed toads to thrive almost everywhere

Photosynthetic microbes employ quantum coherence to efficiently channel the incoming energy from photons

Release of stolen messages fails to undermine climate negotiations at Copenhagen