Basic Research

How more organic farming could worsen global warming

By Courtney Vinopal

Organic agriculture is billed as better for the environment, but a wholesale shift to this farming practice could increase net greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reports.

WATCH: NASA conducts 1st all-female spacewalk

As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren't part of the action.

Scientists discover big storms can create ‘stormquakes’

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

A stormquake is more an oddity than something that can hurt you, because no one is standing on the sea floor during a hurricane, said Wenyuan Fan, a Florida State University seismologist who was the study's lead author.

3 win Nobel in Physics for discovering planet and work on the universe’s evolution

By David Keyton, Associated Press

A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

Nobel Medicine prize awarded to 3 scientists for learning how cells use oxygen

By Jan M. Olsen, Maria Cheng, David Keyton, Associated Press

The prize winners' work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases.

How to talk to your kids about climate change

By Nsikan Akpan

Some kids are scared about global warming. A psychologist, a pediatrician and a school counselor give advice on how to talk about kids' climate anxiety.

Only 2 countries are meeting their climate pledges. Here’s how the 10 worst could improve

By Nsikan Akpan

Here’s how the top-10 polluters are succeeding and falling behind on reducing carbon emissions -- and how they can improve.

9 ways the Arctic and oceans are in ‘unprecedented’ trouble, according to latest IPCC report

By Nsikan Akpan

A quarter of Earth’s permafrost is expected to thaw by 2100 even if climate goals are met, which could release up to 400 billion metric tons of carbon into the air.

Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Fresh off a climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical moves to fight climate change.

How nine days underwater helps scientists understand what life on a Moon base will be like

By Csilla Ari D'Agostino, The Conversation

How is NASA preparing astronauts for high-stress living on the moon? Turns out the answer is by living in undersea bases just off the coast of Florida in a lab known as Aquarius Reef Base.