A Rock That Helps Out In a Hard Place
If only some incredibly common rock would just sit around and suck up carbon dioxide all day. Oh, there is one. Why aren't we excited about it?
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A Visit to Dirty Snow Cones National Park
The eponymous highlights of Glacier National Park are fast disappearing.
Big Step Forward Lost in Shuffle
The U.S. government's regulatory focus on automobile fuel efficiency and emission reduction is very big news.
Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change
Biologist Brian Helmuth has observed firsthand the devastation wrought by climate change, but he's also seen how ecological forecasting can prepare us.
Climate Models Get Biological Makeover
While the ultimate concern over climate change centers on how it affects living things, in the past, modelers have focused on the physics and chemistry of climate change. Now they are including biology.
Protect a Levee, Protect the World
A method of buttressing California's aging levees shows promise for capturing carbon dioxide.
Good News—and Bad—for Coral Reefs
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 Take on Earth’s Temperature, Post-Bali
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.