Researchers from around the world have gathered for Australia's first international conference focused entirely on adapting to the impact of climate change. Organizers of the meeting say the effects of a warming planet are already being felt and that...
The world's largest water lilies are blooming in a tropical greenhouse at London's Kew Gardens. The world's smallest known water lily (Nymphaea thermarum), extinct in its native central African habitat, is thriving in a British botanical garden. Scie...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Seems like every other week brings news that global warming is gonna be bad for some poor animal or other. But plants? Well, I guess I was thinking that p...
On a restricted site in northern Wisconsin, the hissing you hear is helping scientists see the future. Inside towering rings of pipes, aspen, birch, and sugar maples feed on measured diets of greenhouse gases. Our studies were looking at what forest...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali 10 December 2007 Delegates to the U.N. climate change conference are locked in debate over whether to set tough new limits on greenhouse-gas emission, with the United States leading the fight against firm limits. VOA's Na...
By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 05 April 2007 Watch Biofuels report The EU is emerging at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and boost renewable sources, EU politicians seem keener than e...
