Earth Hour Evolves Beyond the Hour, Beyond the Light Switch

Earth Hour Co-Founder and Executive Director, Andy Ridley, has announced a series of high profile and individual environmental actions, and a new dynamic online platform, to mark the global launch for Earth Hour, Beyond the Hour.

Will the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship?

Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks has faced an onslaught of censorship that demonstrated how online speech is vulnerable when intermediaries refuse to host contentious or unpopular...

Will the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship?

Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks has faced an onslaught of censorship that demonstrated how online speech is vulnerable when intermediaries refuse to host contentious or unpopular...

Climate Change Forcing Plants Downhill

In a paper published in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held assumption that plants will move uphill in response to warmer temperatures.

UK Government Launches Website to Explain the Science of Climate Change

Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir John Beddington has launched a new website which explains the science behind the headlines on climate change.

Storing Carbon Dioxide Deep Underground in Rock Form

As carbon dioxide continues to burgeon in the atmosphere causing the Earth’s climate to warm, scientists are trying to find ways to remove the excess gas from the atmosphere and store it where it can cause no trouble. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read...

Carbon Dioxide has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns

Increasingly, the Earth’s climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Niño, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn heat waves and droughts as far away as Africa. Science...

Flower Power Makes Tropics Cooler, Wetter

The world is a cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation results published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The effect is especially pronounced in the Amazon basin, where replacing flowering...

The Big Melt

Climate Central scientists have just published an interactive animated map of high-resolution climate projections for average March temperatures in the lower 48 states, dividing them into zones above and below freezing each decade, and comparing high...