A century of rising temperatures has extended the growing season of hardwood forests in the eastern U.S. by one month, a new study finds. Growing season lasts from the first budburst in spring until trees turn gold and crimson in the fall. As spring and fall grow warmer, trees are bearing their leaves for longer, the research shows. For the […]

The combined weight of every human is more than 10 times that of every wild land mammal put together, a new study finds. “When you look at wildlife documentaries on television — for instance of wildebeest migrating — it is easy to conclude that wild mammals are doing quite well,” Ron Milo, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science […]

A Swiss start-up will install solar panels on a railway in western Switzerland, pending approval from transportation officials. Based in the Swiss town of Ecublens, the firm Sun-Ways has developed a mechanized system for laying down solar panels in which a specially equipped train car glides over the tracks, ejecting panels that fit in between the rails. The panels are […]

As the planet rapidly approaches 1.5 degrees C of warming, scientists warn that rising temperatures are degrading the Earth’s ability to soak up carbon dioxide, threatening to further exacerbate climate change. To keep warming in check, they stress, countries must make steep cuts to emissions in the next few years. Research highlighted in Hot Science, a project of the Bezos […]