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Readers and heads of environmental organisations respond to a call to rewild on a massive scaleGeorge Monbiot (The natural world can help save us from climate chaos, 3 April), Greta Thunberg and other signatories (Letters,...

The days when you could simply grow a basil plant from a seed by placing it on your windowsill and watering it regularly are gone — there's no point now that machine learning-optimized hydroponic "cyber-agriculture" has...

In two new species of rare giant stick insects, males turn livid blue or multicolored at sexual maturity — but why? Frontiers Biodiversity hotspot Madagascar is one of the world’s biggest islands, and home to...

New material could replace plastic or glass in construction of energy-efficient homes

Reposted from Climate Etc. by Judith Curry ” ‘I believe in science’ is an homage given to science by people who generally don’t understand much about it. Science is used here not to describe specific methods or theories,...

What lies beneath the murky depths? SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive wants to help you and the scientific community find out. He’s just led a $7 million Series A for Sofar Ocean Technologies, a new startup formed from...

A recent study analyzed billions of Wikipedia searches and found that the public’s interest in plants and animal species is often linked to the seasonality and migration patterns of wildlife...

Vain promises and empty slogans have got us nowhere. Fossil-fuel extraction must end before more lives are lostAs Africa climate week unfurls in Ghana, the countries of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe count the costs of Cyclone...

At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports From MIT: Exotic ‘second sound’ phenomenon observed in pencil lead The next time you set a kettle to boil,...

Does this apply to Climate Science?~Larry K By Austan Goolsbee NBER Working Paper No. 6532 Issued in April 1998 Conventional wisdom holds that the social rate of return to R&D significantly exceeds the private rate of...

Unmanned systems such as drones, are increasingly used in a variety of fields — from border patrol, to cinematography to just plain showing off your cool new toy with neighbors...

From City Journal Guy Sorman Winter 2019 We’ve all come across the images of polar bears drifting on ice floes: emblematic victims of the global warming that’s melting the polar ice caps, symbols of the threat to the...

From AGU 27 February 2019  Posted by llester By Liza Lester https://youtu.be/G3OTG3_ih3c Under the forests of New York and New England, a hidden tracery of tumbledown stone walls marks the boundaries of early American farms,...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall If AI researchers get their way, in the near future we may no longer have the option of straying even slightly outside the politically correct mandates of our national leaders...

We all know climate change is affecting weather systems and ecosystems around the world, but exactly how and in what way is still a topic of intense study...