For two weeks in 2011, dawn signaled the beginning of another day of fish sampling for Oregon State University professor Brian Sidlauskas and his small team of colleagues and graduate students. Their camp was wedged within a mountainous area of northern South America called the Guyana Shield.
If you like to gamble, you might think that nature is bluffing. With each passing year, it appears she is not.
These are the formative years of a West Coast wave energy industry, and scientists are working with businesses, communities and policymakers to gather environmental data, test new technologies and consider the options.
A mountaineer, a world traveler, an athlete and a Chinese scholar pursue answers to climate change questions.
Climate science is moving from “what if” to “when,” “how,” and “with what practical consequences.”
East Africa’s farms feed millions, but production is likely to fall if temperatures rise and droughts become more common.