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SCIENCE October 20, 2015

Ooooooooh Tannenbaum: Huge DNA code of the Christmas tree beginning to yield its secrets

Scientists say they're making progress on a huge project: mapping the DNA of the Christmas tree.

SCIENCE October 20, 2015

Beautiful, eerie fluorescent glow of Hong Kong seas indicates harmful algal bloom at work

Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say.

Climate October 20, 2015

Scientists cool buildings by beaming heat into space

Ready to give expensive air conditioning bills the cold shoulder? Researchers at Stanford have found a way to keep buildings cool using a new super-thin material that can beam indoor heat into space.

Plants October 20, 2015

Scientists look to mine metals from plants

Australian researchers lead efforts to farm metals from plants.

Climate October 20, 2015

Tim Cook, John Kerry, make climate rallying call

A day after almost 400,000 people took to the streets of Manhattan on the People’s Climate March, Secretary of State John Kerry and Apple CEO Tim Cook helped kick off Climate Week NYC.

Climate October 20, 2015

NASA keeping close eye on Arctic climate

A speedy trip across Alaska's vast, roadless tundra and tall mountains requires travel by air.

Climate October 20, 2015

World must act quickly to reverse buildup of heat-trapping gases, UN climate change panel says

The cost of keeping global warming in check is "relatively modest," but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change said Sunday.

Green October 20, 2015

Sorry, Yogi: Yosemite outsmarts its food-stealing bears

Remembering to lock up everything from baby wipes to bratwurst may be irksome for Yosemite National Park visitors, but a new study finds the park's stringent food storage rules slashed the amount of human food eaten by black bears by 63 percent

Green October 20, 2015

Monster goldfish found in Lake Tahoe

A new kind of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish.

Climate October 20, 2015

Leaked UN climate report slammed for citing WWF, Greenpeace

Critics are blasting a draft U.N. climate change report that combines studies by advocacy groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace alongside scientific research papers -- the same issue that led independent auditors to slam the U.N.'s last report.

SCIENCE October 20, 2015

China, other Asian countries chief source of 8.8 million tons of plastics that hit ocean

Each year about 8.8 million tons of plastic ends up in the world oceans, a quantity much higher than previous estimates, according to a new study that tracked marine debris from its source.