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The vibrant, mega-million-dollar farm to table movement is under increasing scrutiny these days. In San Diego, where produce is an $1.8 billion industry and year-round farmers markets can be found in almost every neighborhood (one of the few financial spinoffs of climate change, perhaps), the farm-to-table concept is getting a bad rep.

Nearly 2 million people throughout the Great Plains and California live above aquifer sites contaminated with natural uranium that is mobilized by human-contributed nitrate, according to a study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Koko la gorila, es más conocida por un estudio de toda la vida en el que se le enseña una forma silenciosa de comunicación: el lenguaje de señas americano. Pero algunos de los sonidos simples que ha aprendido pueden cambiar la percepción de que los seres humanos son los únicos primates con la capacidad para el habla.

En 2010, Marcus Perlman comenzó el trabajo de investigación de la Fundación Gorila en California, donde Koko ha pasado más de 40 años viviendo con los seres humanos, que interactúan durante muchas horas cada día con Penny Patterson, psicóloga, y el biólogo Ronald Cohn.

Work by a University of Wyoming professor and a recent UW Ph.D. graduate has provided a more complete picture of the role of rivers and streams in the global carbon cycle.

Prior to the advent of human-caused global warming in the 19th century, the surface layer of Earth's oceans had undergone 1,800 years of a steady cooling trend, according to a new study. During the latter half of this cooling period, the trend was most likely driven by large and frequent volcanic eruptions.

An international team of researchers reported these findings in the August 17, 2015 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The study also indicates that the coolest temperatures occurred during the Little Ice Age--a period that spanned the 16th through 18th centuries and was known for cooler average temperatures over land.