– A study suggests climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, challenging widely held assumptions.

– We may have to dramatically revise our estimates of how much carbon rainforests contain – apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts

– Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren’t certain whether the birds will survive.

Are trade-offs in Wyoming’s Jonah natural gas field a boon for wildlife?

– The particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland has struck a deal with the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization to ensure that it profits better from its engineers’ innovations.

– Using a novel technique, a professor who specializes in fluid dynamics has been able to predict the movement of the oil slick from BP’s gulf spill.

After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well more than 4 months after the explosion.

Hawking and Mlodinow’s new book gets into the deepest questions of modern cosmology without a single equation, allowing the reader to get through it without bogging down in a lot of technical detail.

– Bacteria that thrive in low temperatures appear to be consuming a deep subsea plume of oil from the BP well blowout.

– Acquired September 2, 2010, this natural-color image shows Hurricane Earl grazing the North Carolina coast.