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Science / Our Planet

Kitchen with stove and oven of a Roman inn (Mansio) at the Roman villa of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

Green Your Kitchen

Household items made of various types of plastic

Cut Your Use of Plastic, Plastic, Plastic

Recycling isn’t enough

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Where Everything’s Bigger Except the Insurance

An Iconic Image of Science Turns 50

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Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania

The trouble with “videophilia”

Cargo Ships Drop Some Water Weight

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Overheated Corals Switch and Survive

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Bamboo Steps Up

An ancient plant becomes a new sensation

Flooding the Grand Canyon

Biofuel Reality Check

Are Pythons Coming to Your Neighborhood?

Part of the 354 MW SEGS solar complex in northern San Bernardino County, California

California Luvs Solar Power

A Weedy Outlook On Nitrogen

More Biofoolery

The pest in question, Helicoverpa zea, the bollworm moth

Dent Appears in Armor of Pest-Resistant Cotton

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The Case of the Missing Dirt

Among the Downsides to City Living: More Rain

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The Anthropocene Epoch?

Fast-Growing Redwoods Break the Law

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Ground Thaw

Geographer Christopher Burn explains why permafrost is thawing

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