A Looming El Niño Could Dry the Amazon
When a warm band of water develops in the Pacific, drought grips the rainforest. The Amazon, devastated by deforestation and fires, is especially vulnerable. ..
When a warm band of water develops in the Pacific, drought grips the rainforest. The Amazon, devastated by deforestation and fires, is especially vulnerable. ..
Growers fear a perfect storm for a tradition that has long bound rural communities together. ..
If you want to know what the cloud of gas that surrounds the planet is really doing for us, you have to see what the world would be like without it. ..
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems. ..
A simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding is to bank more water underground. Send in the choppers (and a few ATVs). ..
It’s been ticking down the seconds to nuclear apocalypse for three-quarters of a century, but it’s not so helpful when it comes to climate change. ..
Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away. ..
If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable. ..
The World Heritage site in southern Iraq survived Saddam Hussein’s campaign to drain the wetlands. Now they’re drying up, and biodiversity is collapsing. ..
Scientists want to pinpoint the technology that marked when humanity became a “geological superpower.” On the short list: the H-bomb and the modern ..