'Two polar bears walk into a bar ...' is an unlikely opener for a joke, but memes and parodies are surprisingly…
Small-scale fisheries buffer poverty and hunger in coastal countries.
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California's new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy…
A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes clear human-induced climate change threatens the health and…
Reversing the damage from fires in Brazil's rainforest is not as simple as allowing trees to grow back. Decades of research…
A 2006 Supreme Court ruling created widespread confusion about which wetlands and other waters are federally protected.…
Energy-wise, the fallout from the attack on Saudi oil facilities has so far been very muted. The surge in oil production…
A team of researchers tried to gauge public perceptions of climate activists and faith in humanity's ability to work…
Fish can't read maps, and their eggs and larvae drift across national boundaries. Recent research shows that local problems…
Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Doria and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean's delicate balance…
Carbon dioxide makes up less than one-twentieth of 1% of Earth's atmosphere. How does this relatively scarce gas control…
The United Nations is calling on world governments to step up action against climate change. Can China, the world's…
The typical American's annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
Should lakes, rivers and other resources have legal rights? New Zealand, Ecuador and other countries have taken this step.…
Conservatives worldwide favor carbon pricing, cap-and-trade systems and other innovative environmental plans – just not…
As deforestation rates in Brazil rise, it's worth asking whether the country can repeat the successes of the last decade.…
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such as drought, exacerbated…
A recent survey in Indiana finds broad concern about climate change and support for addressing it in this red state, with…
Social media make it easier to push information out quickly during disasters, but also create challenges for public information…