The Rancho Mission Viejo community in Orange County, Calif., dedicated around 75 percent of the site’s 23,000 acres as a nature reserve.
For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 – 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater).
A group from Nagoya University in Japan has found that larger, slower-moving typhoons are more likely to be resilient against global warming.
You can’t see it, but it’s in the air, threatening our health — it could even creep inside your home when all the doors and windows are shut.
An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world’s cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates.
The largest dam removal in U.S. history entered a critical phase this week, with the lowering of dammed reservoirs on the Klamath River.
Biodiversity data collection is growing exponentially. The increase is driven in part by international commitments to conservation, market investments and technological advances, and the growing urgency of human impacts including climate change.
Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents.
Efforts to put an economic value on nature are meant to garner support for saving it. But is that the wisest approach?