Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change ...

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Thawing permafrost may release greenhouse gases much faster than previously expected, potentially accelerating climate change ...

An international team of researchers planted the same genetic lines of Arabidopsis thaliana in outdoor gardens stretching from North America to the Levant, then let natural selection run its course ...

The Trump administration plans to close two northern Minnesota U.S. Forest Service research facilities, including one in ...

At first glance, Harvard Forest seems like an ordinary woodland. Oak trees shade the terrain among small shrubs and other trees, mostly maple, birch and beech. Fallen leaves coat the ground below.

How much of a $450 pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent ...