Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study published 24 July in Nature. An international team of scientists from Austria and Germany ...

THE history of land-tenure is one long record of conflict between public rights and private interests. Every policy has been tried, from the extreme of common ownership with no exclusive possession to ...

There are many dimensions to nature, and I have become partial to one in particular. I call it the “third dimension.” “What is that,” you might ask? It’s that special time when imagination takes over ...

Four billion years back, a colossal body of water covered Oxia Planum, a now-dry and desolate spot just north of the Martian equator. “It might have been the bottom of a sea or large lake,” says Jorge ...