Climate Change

Cold-loving balsam firs could struggle if climate change continues unabated. So some Nova Scotia Christmas tree growers are getting ready now. Different types of Christmas trees grow on a lot outside Antigonish, N.S. Christmas tree producers in Nova Scotia are preparing for what climate change may bring to their industry.…

In the 30 years since New York City adopted its first official waterfront plan, hundreds of miles of shoreline have been revitalized with parks and greenways, retail businesses, high-rise condominiums and office towers. Now comes the hard part: protecting billions of dollars of shoreline property and infrastructure across all of…

Mounting pressure from extreme weather events and lethal diseases—both exacerbated by climate change—threatens to assail U.S. Christmas tree–growing regions and slash production. To help defend these cherished trees and the farms that raise them, researchers are mapping conifer genomes and exploiting the natural characteristics of species that grow outside the…

This year our stories covered everything from computing to climate change—and so did our photos. Nick HagenRead More

As cold relics in an increasingly warming world, plants of the spoonweed group time and again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years. An international team of evolutionary biologists and botanists led by Prof. Dr Marcus Koch of Heidelberg University used…

World By Claire Parker | Dec 21, 2021 It has been a year of major protests and unrest — 2021 began with a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and ended with hundreds of thousands demanding civilian rule in Sudan. EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The pandemic fueled new movements around vaccinations, lockdown measures…

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About 20 miles outside El Paso, Texas, on a warm afternoon just before the fall harvest, Ramon Tirres Jr. turns his truck between two fields covered in nothing but dirt. Both should be lush with cotton by now, but these 70 acres—a fraction of the nearly 1,000 that Tirres left…

Many were hoping for a new commitment from the meeting. Unfortunately, the meeting failed to produce anything substantial in the fight against climate change. One sticking point was financing. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More

Before the days of antiseptic supermarkets, with their fluorescent lights and linoleum floors, food was sold in very different types of markets, most of which would not pass muster to a modern health inspector. Take Medieval Europe: Even the sturdiest contemporary carnivore might have felt a bit queasy at the sight of animals…