Few of us get our water from a clean mountain brook.
Next time you fill a glass of water from the tap, you should realize that just a few days...
Few of us get our water from a clean mountain brook.
Next time you fill a glass of water from the tap, you should realize that just a few days...
In the politically-charged world of climate change, an important paper appeared in Science last month, written by Solomon Hsiang and 11 others, assessing the regional impacts of the projected changes in climate...
We often forget that some of today’s obvious and formidable environmental problems were not recognized without tedious long-term studies by dedicated scientists with a hunch. Dave Keeling began to measure...
There is no doubt that the human impact on nature—our ecological footprint—is huge. Forest has been cleared from vast areas of land, some of which is cultivated to provide our...
Like all plants, the phytoplankton of the oceans need a variety of nutrients to conduct their biochemistry—nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, and perhaps as many as 25 other elements. In large areas...
I just don’t get it. We have the best science available in the world for studies of climate. It tells us that humans are changing the climate and warming the...
Contrary to the alternative universe of our President, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in Earth’s atmosphere, the planet is getting warmer, and both trends are destined to continue until we...
One of the iconic theories in ecology, which has withstood decades of rigorous experimental tests, is the Theory of Island Biogeography developed by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson in the...
