The role of climate change in the Nepal floods The deadly flash floods in Nepal are not a surprise to many scientists. Glacial melt is accelerating because of climate change, putting millions of people at risk.
As Spain battles wildfires, its politicians battle over climate change's role Crews are still battling wildfires that broke out last week and have burned nearly 200,000 acres across Spain.
Researchers at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary report that some city-dwelling birds are changing their songs to be heard above traffic and other urban noise.
Most people are diploid. That is, we have two sets of chromosomes — one set from each parent.
On the ridgeline above the Flathead Indian Reservation, Mike Durglo Jr. points out the peaks where his family has hunted for generations and a lone whitebark pine that his people call Ilawya — “my great, great, great grandparent.” That solitary tree, ancient and resilient, is emblematic of the...
It was a rare windless April day in southern Washington and Adam Lieberg was stuck in front of his computer. He was supposed to be burning acres of twigs and pine needles in the forests between the
