In many ways, Tony Fadell built the digital world we live in. At the turn of the millennium, his efforts to build a pocket-sized, hard-disk-based device that could hold 1,000 songs in MP3 format ...

Climate change influences not only crop yields but also crop nutritional content, which is currently not simulated by process-based crop models. This Perspective proposes a way forward to integrate ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an ...

More than two dozen University of Chicago students recently attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference—better known as COP29—which they described as an “eye-opening” yet “humbling” ...

Assessing risk and adverse impacts associated with climate change is essential to inform adaptation efforts. However, this Perspective argues that knowledge of potentially beneficial impacts is also ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...

Five area high school students are getting a firsthand look at global efforts to deal with the world’s changing environment. Poppy Booth and Elora Cianciolo of Oak Park and River Forest High School, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. Here I want to provide further data about the need for a new ...

This conference provides a platform to share developments and lessons learned regarding the safety and resilience of nuclear installations with respect to external events such as floods, high winds, ...