Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this week’s elections

A general election in Brazil next month is widely seen as a choice between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro

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New research argues no other concept reflects our planet-wide transformation in its proper context of deep time.

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect, share and analyze information. Twenty-five years later, that infrastructure has mer...

YouTube video by Environmental Coffeehouse

YouTube video by Environmental Coffeehouse

I went to a music festival

The Panama Canal, one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century is a symbol of outdated infrastructure that is failing to stand up to the vastly different environmental conditions of the 21st...

James Hansen

The discussion about diarrhea has increased lately, especially with the rise of cyclosporiasis. Although unpleasant, it is manageable and can be treated at home

Thanks to George Tsakraklides who articulated so beautifully what I am feeling. Considering that I live in an area where for years frackers have been drooling over Marcellus Shale, this particular per...

Patricia Miller and Erik Molvar write: If the BLM's own field data pointed to cattle as a primary cause of rangeland harm, why are helicopters still sent after horses?

As climate change forces millennia-old Inuit cultures to adapt, the people themselves are at the frontlines of an effort to understand one of its most important ecosystems.