Stories by David Biello

The IPCC has declared man-made climate change "unequivocal." The hard part: trying to stop it

Ten possibilities for staving off catastrophic climate change

The impacts of climate change are already apparent and this interactive map illustrates some of those that might occur in future.

The impacts of global warming have begun to appear across the globe, from shrinking glaciers to rising seas.

Sir Nicholas Stern is an economist and professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Former chief economist for the World Bank, he prepared the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change for the British government in 2006.

Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist and adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. His latest book is entitled Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.

Gary Yohe is an economist at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. vice president, Al Gore.

French green clay worked in the wilds of Africa's Ivory Coast—and now is proving its worth in the lab—as an effective treatment for dangerous bacteria

U.S. nuke list mushroomed in 2003 from traditional Cold War adversaries to smaller nations with nuclear ambitions

Three years ago, experts and officials called for a green revolution in African agriculture. They are beginning to get their wish.

The U.S. government's proposal to build the first new nuclear warhead in two decades raises a host of questions

The secret is in the blood, and broader arteries to carry it

Humanity's environmental impact has reached an unprecedented scope, and it's getting worse

Scientists say they can never be sure exactly how extreme global warming might become, but that's no excuse for delaying action

Fossil and temperature records over the past 520 million years show a correlation between extinctions and climate change

An international panel of experts recommends fixes for the world's energy—and climate—crises

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to rise thanks to dirtier economies and a weakening in natural systems' ability to remove the greenhouse gas

Concern about carbon dioxide emissions lurk behind rejection of new coal-fired power plants

New data shows that the RTS,S vaccine is safe and effective in infants

Transgenic trees and plants may break down the pollutants left behind at sites ranging from former factories to firing ranges

Cell-size nanothreads spun from the tip of a needle that uses pressure rather than an electric charge promise novel regeneration treatments

Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers—these are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa's studies of how evolutionary forces shape later generations