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Climate Change
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.
"A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980."
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
Humanity is in trouble. Here's how aliens could help.
Environmental activists want us to feel "flight shame" if we can take a train, instead. But this isn't entirely realistic, even in Europe.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.