Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s ...

The fires around Los Angeles are getting under control. But, inevitably, another fire will start.

Fire becomes a year-round danger when Southern California is this dry.

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting.

I’d guess not. But here’s a conversation that might make you think twice. Zoë Schlanger, a science writer for the Atlantic, has written an eye-opening book on the topic. It’s called The ...

A placenta is, by definition, new tissue: It grows from scratch over nine months of pregnancy. So when a team of researchers found microplastics in every human placenta they sampled, they were a ...

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger is a study of the controversial world of plant intelligence. Many of us ...

Not any more. In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger, a science journalist, sheds light on how these previously underestimated creatures have been enjoying their newfound place in the ...

Botany is a field in turmoil, says Atlantic writer and climate science journalist Zoe Schlanger (who has a degree in environmental studies, journalism and politics from New York University).