Disaster recovery is harder on isolated islands. The Jamaican diaspora living in the U.S., U.K., Canada and elsewhere will…
Tropical storms are guided by many different wind patterns: big, like the Bermuda high, and small. A hurricane researcher…
Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, limiting their appeal to farmers.…
Many of the canceled grants were investments in the science and infrastructure necessary to keep the lights on in coming…
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial…
The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help…
As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And…
A review of countries’ new climate pledges shows who is leading efforts to protect the climate their economies were built…
The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.
Storm surge is the No. 1 cause of deaths and damage during a hurricane, yet detailed storm surge forecasts are difficult…
The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the…
In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is…
The Erie Canal solidified New York’s reputation as the Empire State, but it also opened up an expressway for invasive…
The US has ample forest resources, but replacing imports with domestic lumber isn’t as simple as it sounds.
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare.…
Companies with relatively many patents and more employees own facilities that tend to release lower proportions of their…
A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are…
Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and…
Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what…
The Earth’s own heat can be brought up from underground and used as a source of energy that emits almost no greenhouse…