Stories by David Biello

It is the pressure change--not the blades--that wipe out thousands of bats annually at wind farms

New estimates show that frozen Arctic soil contains far more potential greenhouse gas than previously recognized--and could speed climate change as it melts

More than 2,000 times the entire annual energy consumption of the U.S. is available deep underground

Things could get uglier for desert flowers looking to bloom in May--and for the region's water supply, year-round

Bacteria from a hot spring in California conduct photosynthesis with arsenic--and suggest a process that might have predated typical photosynthesis

Fertilizer runoff and fossil-fuel use lead to massive areas in the ocean with scant or no oxygen, killing large swaths of sea life and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than petroleum products

Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth

Tracking El Niño with satellites reveals that a warming world means not only heavier downpours--but drier deserts

A new technique could turn cement from a source of climate changing greenhouse gases into a way to remove them from the air