Textiles evolving to meet demand for sustainable materials

Whether it’s how they’re made or what they’re made of, textiles are evolving to meet consumer…

El Nino fades so forecasters expect busier hurricane season

Government meteorologists say this year’s hurricane season may be busier than initially expected now that summer’s…

Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age

People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they…

Analysis of wildfire smoke will help calibrate climate models

Thunderstorms generated by a group of giant wildfires in 2017 injected a small volcano’s worth of…

UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future

Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth’s land and the way people use the land…

Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers' profits and cut pollution

A new economic study in the journal Science shows that thousands of farmers in northern India…

Ham Radio Magazine Cofounder, Publisher Skip Tenney, W1NLB, SK

Ham Radio Magazine cofounder and publisher Skip Tenney, W1NLB, of Francestown, New Hampshire, died on August…

Strange cloud trail leaves observers in awe

A strange cloud trail in the early morning sky above Florida left observers on the ground…

Over a century of Arctic sea ice volume reconstructed with help from historic ships' logs

Our knowledge of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean comes mostly through satellites, which since 1979…

Human microbiome churns out thousands of tiny novel proteins, researchers find

Your body is a wonderland. A wonderland teeming with trillions of bacteria, that is. But it’s…