A hulking marine cyanobacterium, Chonkus has traits that appears to make it especially good for storing away carbon on the ocean floor.
The organisms that make winter homes in this subnivium help forests thrive year-round. But climate change is making this ecosystem disappear.
High heat and little rain have extended wildfire season to year-round in some parts of California. Fast winds and dry conditions are fueling L.A.’s current infernos.
Warming permafrost and glacial melt destabilized a fragile mountain slope, leading to a landslide-triggered tsunami in a fjord. Is this a sign of more to come?
These plants absorb methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in addition to carbon dioxide. Methane’s uptake is likely thanks to microbes living in tree bark.
A blanket of clay soil helped the wood hold onto the carbon it had absorbed — for thousands of years.
Most cloud-seeding particles may come from a newly discovered mechanism — stratospheric intrusion.
Scientists can find out whether a natural disaster was more frequent or severe due to human-caused climate change. Here’s how.
It relies on rainwater that gets stored below a field of plastic "grass." The design also limits how much rain — and pollution — will run off artificial turf.
