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Scientists Engineer Crops to Consume More Carbon Dioxide

Scientists have engineered sugarcane and sorghum to take advantage of rising lev...

Loss of Antarctic Sea Ice Is Giving Rise to More Freque...

The decline of sea ice around Antarctica is fueling more frequent storms in the ...

Return of Trees to Eastern U.S. Is Fueling a Surge in W...

Trees and shrubs have proliferated in unmanaged forests in the eastern U.S. This...

The Year in Energy in Four Charts

The global energy sector defied expectations this year, in ways both good and ba...

A Year of Climate Extremes, In Photos

From floods in Brazil to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, extreme weather exa...

The Growing Human Footprint on Earth, as Seen from Space

Last year saw warming reach startling new highs, with record heat fueling extrem...

U.S. Support and New Investments Buoy Hopes for Marine ...

Producing energy from waves and tides has a stop-and-start history. But with a n...

Severe Cold Spells May Persist Because of Warming, Not ...

Huge swaths of North America are facing subfreezing temperatures this week as co...

Renewables Supplied Two-Thirds of Germany's Power Last ...

Germany, the largest economy in Europe, got nearly two-thirds of its power from ...

Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction I...

In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have...

Did Climate Change Help Fuel the Los Angeles Wildfires?

Wildfires in Southern California have burned tens of thousands of acres, destroy...

U.S. Wind and Solar Overtake Coal Power

In a first, the U.S. saw wind and solar supply more power than coal last year, a...

How African Communities Are Taking Lead on Protecting W...

A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed ...

Trees That Have Never Known Plentiful Rainfall Better P...

A new study finds that trees that have lived through many wet years struggle to ...

Whiplash: How Big Swings in Precipitation Fueled the L....

Climate scientist Daniel Swain says that two very wet years followed by a very d...

Carbon Dioxide Levels Rose by a Record Amount Last Year

Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever before, puttin...

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