New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009. Continue reading...

This paper is motivated by growing concern about tipping dynamics and processes that can cause abrupt, self-amplifying, and irreversible changes across the Earth system and societies. It assesses curr...

These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.

Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

Flash floods have killed at least 389 people while homes and infrastructure have been swept away

As you may know, Stand Up for Science has endorsed Brian Poindexter for Congress in Ohio’s 7th District. He's exactly who we need in Washington: a working class, pro-science, pro-union advocate for wo...

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Don’t miss the latest episode of Hi, Energy! Host Esteban Gast and Dr. Aradhna Tripati dive into the climate impacts we face today, ways community can serve as a climate solution, and how imagination ...

Well damn, we sure feel safer knowing ICE pulled 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his construction worker dad Victor off Austin's streets on their way to a soccer game before Liam could start kindergarten th...