A new study suggests that the coral trade for aquariums is shifting toward farming rather than harvesting, which might help preserve some coral species.
Categories: Environment, Science, The New York Times
Increasingly, residents of urban and suburban areas are having firsthand experience with coyotes in their own yards, parks and neighborhoods.
Categories: Environment, Science, The New York Times
In Mongolia, 298-million-year-old plant fossils paint a portrait of what life was like long before the dinosaurs.
Categories: Discover Magazine, Science
Drought, rampant wildfire in the outback, and the degradation of the treasured Great Barrier Reef have forever altered how Australia views its energy endowment. Facing a future as one of the places on Earth most vulnerable to climate change, and one of the nations with the world’s highest per capita carbon emissions, Australia has taken steps to change its fate.
Categories: Energy, Environment, National Geographic, Policy
The rapid adoption of a single weed-killer for the vast majority of crops harvested in the United States has given rise to superweeds and greater pesticide use, a new study suggests. And while crops engineered to manufacture an insect-killing toxin have reduced the use of pesticides in those fields, the emergence of newly resistant insects now threatens to reverse that trend.
Categories: Science, The New York Times
By turns demonized as a catastrophic environmental threat and glorified as a therapy for our foreign oil addiction, fracking has become a flashpoint in our national energy policy. But how does fracking really work?
Categories: Energy, Grist, Technology
The next generation of cars will look much like today’s, but will weigh less, have better aerodynamics, and smarter systems that can ramp power up or down as needed.
Categories: Energy, Mobility & Transport, National Geographic, Policy, Technology
An earlier generation had the Summer of Love. In 2012, the warm months turned into the season of the electric car for Californians with a passion for plug-ins.
Categories: Mobility & Transport, The New York Times
Arun Majumdar, founding director of ARPA-E, reflects on his time in Washington, the future of energy innovation, his experience seeking bipartisan support from Congress and what he has coming up next.
Categories: Energy, Policy, The New York Times
