Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

As temperatures increase and snowpack declines, many alpine plants are at risk of extinction. Though adapted to harsh ...

TOMALES BAY -- A pivotal experiment to address the impact of livestock on climate change is taking place in our backyard, as a farm in the North Bay gets closer to becoming carbon neutral. Scientists ...

The United Nations' climate change body may unintentionally be eroding public trust in science because of the way it ...

Researchers conducting an experiment in Alameda to determine the feasibility of mitigating global warming by spraying sea salt particles into the air are looking at their next steps after the city ...

Extreme drought events challenge ecosystem functioning. Ecological response to drought is studied worldwide in a growing number of field experiments by rain-out shelters. Yet, few metaanalyses face ...

The UK should expect a 4°C rise in temperature by 2080 according to the most likely results of the experiment. Heatwaves are on the rise and, by 2080, summer temperatures of 40°C will be common.

Participants were asked to rate their level of anger about climate change on a scale of 0 to 100. The paper’s authors also ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – Luke Iseman and Andrew Song weren’t doing anything illegal hauling around 200-pound cylinders of sulfur dioxide in Song’s RV to pump into weather balloons. Against the law ...