Daniel Grossman is a freelance writer in Watertown, Mass.
A Long-Awaited Climate Experiment Is Poised to Launch in the Amazon. What Will It Find?
Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.
A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon
After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.
Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?
Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs—And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying
One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.
Peru’s Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming
The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether indigenous people want to continue to work the land
Spring Forward
As temperatures rise sooner in spring, interdependent species in many ecosystems are shifting dangerously out of sync
Parched Turf Battle
Did climate changes cause civilizations to collapse?
Throw the Switch?
New vaccines may not be a reason to keep smallpox stocks
Dissent in the Maelstrom
Maverick meteorologist Richard S. Lindzen keeps right on arguing that human-induced global warming isn't a problem
One Disaster after Another
The father of the idea that a sibling of the sun periodically wreaks havoc on Earth finds inspiration in catastrophes