Just How Sensitive Is Earth's Climate to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide?
Two new studies look far back in geologic time to determine how sensitive the global climate is to atmospheric CO2 levels
Stories by David Biello
Unraveling the Ribosome: Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Modelers of Cells' Protein-Maker [Update]
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath first determined how to image the ribosome, then revealed how it does its protein-making work
Driving on Glass? Inventor Hopes to Lay Down Solar Roads
U.S. roads paved with glass panels encasing photovoltaics and LEDs would double as a national power grid
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World's Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma
Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth... at the same time
Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?
A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture--and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences
Is birth control the answer to environmental ills?
Population growth, now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't-go-there zone of modern environmentalism and political discourse.
But let's go there for the moment: The biodiversity crisis...
Grappling with the Anthropocene: Scientists Identify Safe Limits for Human Impacts on Planet
Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle
Burying Climate Change: Efforts Begin to Sequester Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants
West Virginia hosts the world's first power plant to inject some of its CO2 emissions underground for permanent storage
Algaeus lives! A modified Prius goes cross-country on fuel from algae
You really can drive across the country on algae--and a 700-pound battery pack--or so proved the crew behind the documentary Fuel . Embarking on September 8 and pulling into New York City today, just in time for the film's premiere, the Algaeus covered 3,750 miles...
Navy Green: Military Investigates Biofuels to Power Its Ships and Planes
The U.S. Navy will begin testing biofuels from camelina and algae
Norman Borlaug: Wheat breeder who averted famine with a "Green Revolution"
Norman Borlaug went from a small farm in Iowa to feeding half the world, thanks to a lifelong interest in tinkering with the genetic design of wheat.
The Climate's Warm Future Is Now in the Arctic
A new survey reveals just how far and how fast global warming is altering the Arctic
Global Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
Humans and climate change can take credit for a much warmer Arctic, according to new research
Why not spend $21 billion on solar power from space?
The Japanese government is prepared to spend some 2 trillion yen on a one-gigawatt orbiting solar power station—and this week Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies have signed on to boost the effort...
