Fight Entropy

This is a hard problem to answer well, but its certainly an interesting question. Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected...

In this week's Nature : We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is pivotal to the functio...

Understanding spatial differences in African elephant densities and occurrence, a continent-wide analysis Willem F. de Boer, Frank van Lan...

Johannes points out that Nature is running a special issue on the environment in honor of Rio +20. Of special interest is the following ...

I just sifted through a 700-entry bibliography, and this was the coolest paper I found (2008, PNAS). It definitely wins the FE-paper-find-o...

People frequently ask "What is sustainable development?"  That's a hard question to answer well at a cocktail party.  But the ...

This is the kind of thing I can't believe they didn't teach me in elementary school.  I knew the platypus was exceptional among mamm...

I'm not sure how well this comes through on the blog, but Sol and I (and, I think it's safe to say, many if not most of the people i...

Photo source Doing academic research involving climate means that every few times I tell someone what I do I get as a response some que...

I'm very impressed and surprised by the coverage . And its a great story about innovations in scientific research. I didn't even re...

This is a really interesting (and easy to read) article in Physics Today (I don't know why it's there) on the impact of sound pollu...