Climate change, research funding, race, and much more

Credit: ART WOLFE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY" /> Credit: ART WOLFE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Scientists have long suspected that global warming might cause extinctions. But until a group from the University of Leeds produced an influential model in 2004,1 "nobody had managed to frame the question," says Chris Thomas, the paper's lead author, now at the University of York. Thomas' group modeled relationships between distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species and their habitats across 20% of Eart

A new law opens the door to teaching creationism and climate change denialism in the state's public schools.

While the world is still coming to grips with the new reality wrought by COVID-19, the risk of catastrophe from a warming planet persists.

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Greenpeace flags researchers' payments from a climate change skeptic organization.

Assessments of species vulnerability provide crucial information for conservation efforts. But the science behind them is still evolving.

The growing season on the tundra is starting earlier as the planet warms, but the plants aren’t sequestering more carbon, a new study finds.

Until six months ago or so, ecologist H. Ronald Pulliam never bothered with fax machines. Now his work depends on them. Every day he and 20 colleagues use the machines to iron out the details of a multimillion-dollar, multidisciplinary, multi-university proposal to study how plants interact with the atmosphere. But fax machines aren't the only things that have changed the way Pulliam, director of the Institute on Ecology at the University of Georgia, carries out his work on global change. Indeed

color = "#83BFE9"; Biotechnology in the Era of Climate Change Climate change threatens Thailand’s farmlands and the country’s valuable biodiversity. Scientists are working to predict future changes and minimize their impact. By Nantiya Tangwisutijit Erawan Falls near Kanchanaburi, Thailand © Sander Kamp A month before world leaders gathered in Copenhagen last December to haggle over CO2 emissions, another gr