White House Issues New Regulations for Dangerous Biological Research
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. The Obama administration on Wednesday issued new guidelines intended to strengthen oversight of […]
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Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks Below Level of a Year Ago
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ice in Arctic waters shrank this summer to the sixth-lowest level in 36 years […]
Forecasts: Hopes and Fears About Climate Change
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Answers from two dozen scientists, authors, and world and national figures. Published: September 23, 2014 […]
Shining Star Power on a Crucial Subject
By JUSTIN GILLIS “Years of Living Dangerously,” an Emmy-winning documentary series about climate change that ran on Showtime […]
By 2047, Coldest Years May Be Warmer Than Hottest in ...
By JUSTIN GILLIS A new paper based on top climate models says that by about 2047, average temperatures […]
Antifreeze Proteins Keep Antarctic Fish Alive and Icy
By JAMES GORMAN The proteins that latch on to ice crystals in the body of the fish and […]
Three Divergent Visions of Our Future Under Climate Change
By NATHANIEL RICH Three books — one optimistic, one cataclysmic and one polemic — discuss what climate change […]
Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic
By MICHAEL BECKER Hot summers are becoming more frequent, an ominous sign for the polar desert ecosystems that […]
A Future as Clouded as Their Past
By GEORGE JOHNSON When the Anasazi abandoned the cities they had worked so long to build on the […]
On the Cusp of Climate Change
By Produced by JEFFERY DelVISCIO, JESSIE DEWITT, CLAIRE MALDARELLI and LARRY BUCHANAN Animal and plant species around the […]