The most pristine parts of the Amazon rainforest devoid of direct human contact are being impacted by human-induced climate change,...
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S. has found a sample of a mineral...
MIT biologists have answered an important biological question: Why do cells control their size? Cells of the same type are...
Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world’s oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to protect...
Ancient Indigenous fishing practices can be used to inform sustainable management and conservation today, according to a new study from...
Two articles being published in Science magazine’s influential Policy Forum this week argue for more and better social science research...
Author Neal Stephenson shot to fame almost 30 years ago with the science-fiction novel “Snow Crash,” which envisioned a future...
Volatile elements, such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur (S), are of profound importance for the formation, the differentiation and...
Rock weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale. New research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
Refugees are on the move in forests across the western U.S. As climate conditions change, the ranges of tree species...
As important as emissions of the greenhouse gas methane are in the climate conversation, recently factoring prominently in the recent...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly and rapidly progressing disease with no cure. The disease involves abnormal interactions between...