Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift, species will face local extinction and ...
Five years ago, the economist Partha Dasgupta warned that business was self-cannibalising: consuming the natural systems it ...
Experts call for urgent action by businesses to restore the natural systems that keep them running.
In nature, molecules often show a strong preference for partnering with other molecules that share the same chirality or handedness. A behavior that is quite evident in the phenomenon known as ...
As climate change and nature loss accelerate, the insurance protection gap is widening, putting households and communities at ...
Disasters like forest fires are predictable consequences of trying to enforce stability on ever-changing systems—the ultimate ...
Decades of development along L.A.'s steep canyons and hillsides, combined with prolonged drought, have left the city's ...
Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to ...
If you break open a chicken bone, you won’t find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, spongelike network of tiny struts and pillars, and a lot of empty space. It ...
Puffed-up Sun. Data from inside the Sun’s corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — helped astrophysicists to create a sharper picture of the Sun’s shifting boundaries than ever before. The ...
Integrating natural elements into architectural design has long been a fundamental pursuit in creating comfortable, sustainable environments that enhance both individual well-being and the ...