Climate change and fossil-fuel costs have re-energized the flickering nuclear movement in the United States, but many proponents are the fairest-weather of friends.
While geographer Alan Grainger has upset conventional wisdom by suggesting the world's tropical forests are not shrinking, he sees his research as a clarion call.
Hydropower will never be the complete answer to emissions-free energy production in the U.S., but a strong case can be made for it becoming a useful part of the answer.
While scientists monitor how our clothing affects the climate, trend-watchers are more interested in the reverse: how climate change is beginning to alter our apparel. Bamboo underwear, anyone?
Take that, hakuna matata. The Disney-fied notion that, left to its own devices, nature will always revert to an idyllic equilibrium is a dangerous fallacy, say two researchers. The cultural bias colors discussions on climate change.
Reports show that the ocean's unique ecosystems are adapting to fluctuations in water temperatures likely caused by global warming, but increasing acidic levels may prove fatal for the world's coral reefs.
A round-up of research taken in the wake of the Bali summit on climate change finds little to warm the heart with the one exception that Atlantic hurricanes may grow more numerous but less fierce.