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Investment in unconventional fossil fuels is expected to outpace spending on renewables by a ratio of at least 3-to-1 in the decades ahead.
Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching...
McDonald's Japan isn't doing well. Bring on the dancing employees.
Exurban development patterns not only worsen climate change, they also make residents more vulnerable to one of its effects.
Melting ice and rising seas are shifting the position of the North Pole by eight inches a year.
Fracking can release uranium from shale. Pennsylvania is poised to study the issue, and the uranium industry is poised to exploit it.
New research suggests that people in counties with coal-fired power plants are more likely to kill themselves.
How climate skeptics and the media -- with a little inadvertent help from scientists themselves -- forged a misleading narrative.
There may be fewer tropical cyclones in the Pacific in the future, but those that do form are expected to be stronger and more likely to strike Hawaii.