Papa’s Got a Brand-New Ag?
A conversation with renowned entomologist Hans Herren on a United Nations report calling for changes in how the world produces its food.
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The Doubt Makers
By funding its own research, industry has raised unwarranted doubts about a range of scientific issues — from the risks of tobacco to the reality of climate change — delaying response to public dangers for decades. Can scientists and journalists learn to beat the doubt industry before our most serious problems beat us all?
Re-reefing the Florida Keys
Ken Nedimyer and the Nature Conservancy find coral tough enough to withstand global warming.
Is Nitrogen the New Carbon?
A discussion with ecologist Alan Townsend on mankind's love-hate relationship with nitrogen, and how this marriage can be saved.
Climate Change Leaves Wildflowers in the Cold
In the wildflower meadows of the West, we may be hearing the whisperings of a post-climate-change world.
Even With Climate Change, Nuclear a Hard Sell
As political debate heats up about a potentially greater role for nuclear energy in a world struggling to abate global warming, British researchers have been looking at what influences public opinion on this issue.
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
The United States has built one of the most advanced technological societies the world has ever seen, but we still don't really know when spring starts.
More Hype Equals Less Action on Climate Change
Two new surveys regarding Americans' attitudes toward climate change suggest that Americans have yet to make a personal connection to the issue.
More Global Warming Worries
Reducing global carbon dioxide emissions will be an even more daunting challenge than we have been led to believe, according to a sobering commentary in the April 3 issue of Nature magazine.
More Bad News on Global Warming
As Americans argue about how to tackle the issue of climate change, the astonishingly rapid industrialization of China is threatening to negate whatever progress we might achieve in reducing greenhouse gases. According to a new analysis by economists at two University of California campuses, China's carbon dioxide emissions are growing at a far faster pace than previously estimated -- and earlier estimates were worrying.